Engineering Manager, Data Platform (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA; hybrid work with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for employees near an office.

Salary: $199,000–$275,000 annual base salary, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology company providing user-friendly banking services and financial tools to help members make financial progress.

What you will do

• Lead the Data Storage team and own the strategy and roadmap for online and analytical data stores, including Snowflake and data lake platforms.
• Design scalable, high-performance storage architecture for analytical and latency-sensitive product workloads.
• Define data access patterns, schemas, data contracts, SLAs, partitioning, clustering, indexing, caching, and serving layers.
• Build governance and compliance tooling covering RBAC, PII protection, tokenization, lineage, and auditability.
• Establish operational practices including on-call, incident management, postmortems, and SLOs.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers while raising standards for technical excellence and operational reliability.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in high-scale, high-reliability software development focused on platforms, infrastructure, and data storage systems.
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and engineer development.
• Deep experience with data lakes, lakehouses such as Iceberg, data warehouses such as Snowflake, online and offline stores, and batch and real-time streaming systems.
• Expertise in scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data architecture, including schema design, data modeling, and partitioning.
• Experience with technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Python, Java, Scala, SQL, and cloud data ecosystems including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, compliance, RBAC, PII handling, auditability, and AI-ready data foundations.

Nice to have

• Experience introducing modern data storage, lakehouse, and AI/ML-ready data technologies.
• Experience scaling platforms and operations through rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality.

Culture & Benefits

• In-office and fully remote programs are available depending on location and eligibility.
• Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits, including backup care and commuter subsidies for eligible employees.
• Generous vacation policy, company-wide paid days off, and paid parental leave.
• Annual wellness stipend and family planning reimbursement.
• Bonus, competitive equity package, and opportunities to work on financial technology used by millions of members.