Director, Data Engineering (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA; onsite role with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for employees near a hirify.global office

Base salary: $269,000–$373,000 USD annually; eligible full-time employees may also receive bonuses, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology company providing user-friendly financial tools and platforms that help members make financial progress.

What you will do

• Lead and grow an organization of engineering managers and staff engineers.
• Set the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for data foundations, linking investments to business and member outcomes.
• Shape data architecture supporting analytics, ML, and hirify.global's AI transformation.
• Build partnerships with product, analytics, ML, risk, and business leaders while balancing competing priorities.
• Hire, coach, and develop leaders while building a culture of trust, candor, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering organizations through managers, including managing managers and staff-level engineers.
• Track record of building trusted partnerships with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders and aligning them through competing priorities.
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and data serving for analytics and ML/AI use cases.
• Experience setting technical strategy and multi-year roadmaps and presenting investment cases to executives.
• Sound judgment on architecture trade-offs at scale, including batch versus real-time, build versus buy, and cost versus reliability, with sufficient technical depth to earn credibility with staff engineers.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience building data foundations for AI and LLM-powered tools.
• Experience working in fintech or another regulated industry.

Culture & Benefits

• In-office policy with four office days and Fridays from home near company offices; a fully remote program is also available according to company policy.
• Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits, including backup care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
• Generous vacation, company-wide paid days off, an annual wellness stipend, and paid parental leave of up to 22 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Family planning reimbursement and time off to support local community organizations.
• Inclusive, entrepreneurial environment focused on integrity, collaboration, diverse perspectives, and member outcomes.