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Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

220k – 240kSan Francisco, CAData EngineeringHybrid4+ YOE
Summary

Senior data engineer building and scaling ETL pipelines, data lakes, and warehouses on AWS. Owns data quality, governance, schema design, and works with Data Science and Analytics teams.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks.
  • Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security.
  • Model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses.
  • Create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow.
  • Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality.
  • Build a scalable data platform that caters to the data plumbing needs of Chime.
  • Build scalable data pipelines and frameworks.
  • Architect and build workflows that could potentially become de facto standards for the fintech industry.
  • Be a hands-on data engineer, building, scaling and optimizing ETL pipelines.
  • Design data warehouse schemas and scale data warehouse process data for 10x data growth.
  • Own all aspects of data - data quality, data governance, data and schema design, data quality and security.
  • Own schema registry and dependency chart for persistent data.
  • Own the ETL workflows and make sure the pipeline meets data quality and availability requirements.
  • Work closely with partner teams, like Data Science, Analytics and DevOps.
  • Transform data to governed and lucid datasets. Build and deploy production-quality data pipelines.
  • Work with stakeholders to provide business insights.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information/Systems Engineering or related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or in a software/data engineer-related occupation.
  • At least 4 years of experience in each of the following:
    • Utilize knowledge of Distributed Computing and AWS Technologies such as AWS Glue, PySpark, and AWS EMR to create highly performant pipelines that can process the data at scale.
    • Utilize knowledge of modern Data Engineering concepts to create data lake using AWS Cloud technologies such as AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Spectrum, and AWS Glue.
    • Utilize knowledge of Extract Transform and Load (ETL) to process both structured and semi-structured data.
    • Utilize knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow and shell scripting for automating pipelines.
  • At least 1 year of experience in each of the following:
    • Utilize knowledge of data warehousing concepts and MPP databases to create data warehouse for processing and storing large volumes of data.
    • Utilize knowledge of Data Modeling concepts, Lucid Chart and Erwin Data Modeler to create data model for enterprise applications.
    • Utilize knowledge of SQL for data extraction, manipulation and analysis across large datasets.
    • Utilize knowledge of Python scripting and libraries including NumPy and Pandas to create and automate data Pipelines, for data extraction, manipulation, and data analysis.
    • Utilize knowledge of Data Visualization tools such as AWS Quicksight and Tableau to create dashboards and generate insights.
    • Utilize experience with working with stakeholders for providing business insights.

Nice-to-Haves / Benefits

  • Some telecommuting is permitted.
  • Competitive salary based on experience.
  • 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
  • Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus 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 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
  • Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
  • In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers.
Skills
AWS GluePySparkAWS EMRAWS EC2AWS S3AWS LambdaAWS SpectrumAirflowETLSQLPythonNumPyPandasAWS QuickSightTableau
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