Chime Financial, Inc
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
San Francisco, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time
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$6,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- High autonomy, real architectural trade-offs, production impact from day one.
- We're hiring multiple engineers into this role at the senior level.
- Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical roadmap for our data platform - evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, define integration patterns, and set standards that engineering teams across the company adopt
- Partner with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing as a technical lead to design data contracts, onboard new data domains, and scale ingestion without sacrificing governance
- Own the platform - monitor, alert, debug, and resolve incidents across the data platform with the urgency expected of infrastructure that powers financial products
- Raise the technical bar of the team through code review, design reviews, and hands-on mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers
Requirements
- Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation.
- Deep proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin, with strong opinions on testing, code quality, and maintainability in data-heavy codebases
- To thrive in this role, you have
- Production experience with the modern data stack, specifically:
Skills
- A cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
- Data modeling and transformation frameworks (dbt)
Compensation
- Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience.
- For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay.
- The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
Benefits
- 💻 Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- ✨ Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- 👶 Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- 👪 Access to family planning reimbursement
Company info
- Wage Notice $187,000 - $259,000 USD A little about us At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress.
- From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life.
- Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.
- Whether you're coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you'll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
This listing is sourced directly from Chime Financial, Inc's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.