Data Engineering Manager, Self Financial

$159-212k

+ Company equity in the form of Stock Options; + Performance-based bonuses

SQL

Python

Airflow

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Mid and Senior level

Austin

Remote from US

More information about location

Credit and savings-building platform

Open for applications

Credit and savings-building platform

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CCredit ScoringPersonal financeLendingCredit cards

Open for applications

$159-212k

+ Company equity in the form of Stock Options; + Performance-based bonuses

SQL

Python

Airflow

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Mid and Senior level

Austin

Remote from US

More information about location

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CCredit ScoringPersonal financeLendingCredit cards

Company mission

To enable people to build credit, build savings, and reach their goals.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

6+ years in data engineering (or adjacent), including 2+ years managing or leading engineers
Expert SQL and strong Python
Hands-on experience building/operating ELT/ETL and orchestration (e.g., Airflow or equivalent)
Cloud data warehousing (Redshift/BigQuery/Snowflake) and modern transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt or equivalent)
Solid data modeling fundamentals and performance tuning
Experience implementing data quality, observability, and lineage; running on-call and incident processes
Ability to convert ambiguous business needs into a prioritized roadmap; excellent communication and stakeholder management

What the job involves

We’re hiring a Data Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team focused on trusted, timely, and well-governed data
You’ll modernize pipelines, strengthen quality and observability, and scale our warehouse and transformations to support product growth and enable key metrics for business
This role reports to the Director of Engineering
You’ll raise the reliability and usability of the data that fuel credit-building, savings, and customer insights—cutting time-to-insight, reducing incidents, and improving compliance and cost efficiency
Lead & develop the team: Hire, coach, and grow data engineers; set clear goals and feedback loops
Modernize pipelines: Replace legacy/fragile jobs with resilient ELT/ETL; standardize orchestration, transformations, and data contracts; retire tech debt
Model & transform data: Establish durable dimensional models and incremental patterns; improve performance
Quality & observability: Implement testing, validation, and anomaly detection; define SLAs/SLOs for freshness, availability, and accuracy; run incident response and post-mortems
Lineage & governance: Stand up lineage, cataloging, ownership, and documentation; enforce access controls, PII handling, retention, and auditability
Cost & performance: Optimize workload management, storage layout, and query efficiency while maintaining reliability
Partner across Self: Translate business goals into a clear data roadmap with Analytics, Fraud, Accounting, Product, and ML; communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress
Measure impact: Set and track team OKRs (pipeline success rate, freshness SLOs, MTTR/MTTD, stakeholder satisfaction)

Our take

Almost 50 million Americans are “credit invisible” with no credit score at all, while there are also around the same number with low credit scores. The ramifications of this are profound, as it goes on to affect mortgage and rental applications, personal loans, and even job prospects.

Self is one of many fintechs, along with the likes of Better, TomoCredit and SoFi, that are attempting to help people get easier access to loans, and in turn credit scores. The company offers consumers instalment loans and its own Visa credit card, regardless of their current credit score.

While there’s lots of competition in this particular fintech niche, Self has been scaling up rapidly over the last few years, increasing its headcount and expanding into credit reporting for rent with its acquisition of RentTrack. With its innovative approach and growing range of services, Self is positioned to continue making a meaningful impact on financial inclusion.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Glassdoor (3.9)

Trustpilot (4.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2021

$50m

SERIES E

Dec 2020

$40m

SERIES D

Total funding: $127.6m

Company benefits

Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, FSA, HSA
401(k) investment plan
Equity incentive plan
Flexible time off
Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary care givers
Wellness programs and fitness benefits
Professional development reimbursement
Reward and recognition program
Hybrid work environment

Company HQ

East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX

Leadership

James Garvey

(Founder & Member of the Board of Directors)

Founded Self Financial in 2014 and served as the CEO until 2023. Previously founded GK Equity and co-founded Objective Loyalty where they served as the CTO for 5 years.

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