# Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform at Chime

- Company: Chime
- What the company does: Backed by SoftBank VF, ICONIQ and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.chime.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/chime/jobs/8840193002?gh_jid=8840193002&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chime-senior-software-engineer-data-platform/

## About the role

Chime’s Data Platform team builds the infrastructure every engineering and analytics team depends on - ingestion, transformation, quality, governance, and self-serve tooling across batch and streaming workloads. You’ll own core platform systems at scale, design the frameworks other teams build on, and set the technical standards for how data moves through Chime. High autonomy, real architectural trade-offs, production impact from day one. We’re hiring multiple engineers into this role at the senior level. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years building, shipping, and operating data infrastructure in production - not just writing pipelines, but owning their reliability, performance, and cost at scale
- Strong system design skills - you’ve written design docs, made trade-offs, and delivered the result
- Solid understanding of key metrics for data pipelines and experience building solutions to provide visibility to partner teams
- Deep proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin, with strong opinions on testing, code quality, and maintainability in data-heavy codebases
- A cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)

Tags: Data Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chime-senior-software-engineer-data-platform/