Data Engineering Manager, Self Financial
$170-225k
+ Stock Options + Performance-based bonuses
Credit and savings-building platform
Posted today
Credit and savings-building platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$170-225k
+ Stock Options + Performance-based bonuses
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable people to build credit, build savings, and reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- You've been a practitioner in modern data infrastructure you've designed, built, or operated warehouse/lakehouse systems, not just directed others who did
- You can read and critique a dbt model, a pipeline DAG, or a schema design and have an informed opinion
- You're comfortable being a contributor in a data platform design conversation
- You want to manage people, but you don't want to lose your technical edge doing it
- You care about data quality, governance, and reliability as much as throughput
- You like the idea of helping people build (or rebuild) their financial future through the data that powers it
- 4+ years in a data engineering management or tech-lead-manager role, directly managing engineers
- 7+ years of hands-on data engineering experience - building and operating pipelines, warehouses, or lakehouse platforms in production
- Specific experience with a modern data stack: a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery), a transformation framework (e.g., dbt), and an orchestration tool (e.g., Airflow, Dagster)
- Working knowledge of streaming/event pipelines (e.g., Kafka) and lakehouse table formats (e.g., Iceberg, Delta Lake) is strongly preferred
- A track record of making architecture decisions that held up in production, not just process improvements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including with non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with agile engineering methodologies
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineering Manager on our Data Platform team, you will lead a small, high-leverage team responsible for the infrastructure and pipelines that power credit decisioning, risk, analytics, and financial reporting across Self Financial
- You'll stay hands-on with the architecture reviewing designs, unblocking hard technical problems, and setting direction on our data warehouse, transformation layer, and orchestration while managing and growing a team of data engineers
- This is a working technical manager role, not a generalist engineering management role: we need someone who has actually built and operated modern data platforms, not just managed teams that did
- Teams that make a difference; individuals that matter
- At Self Financial, we put hard problems in the hands of people who've solved them before
- Our data platform underpins everything from real-time risk signals to executive reporting, and it's undergoing active modernization including a multi-quarter migration toward a lakehouse architecture
- We want a leader who can go deep in design reviews, not just in headcount planning
- This role presents an incredible opportunity for you to have a before and after transformation of an enterprise data warehouse in your career
- As Data Engineering Manager, you will own the health, reliability, and roadmap of our core data pipelines and platform services, while directly managing a team of data engineers
- You'll split your time between hands-on technical leadership architecture reviews, pairing with engineers on hard problems, evaluating tooling and infrastructure choices and traditional people management: hiring, mentoring, performance, and process
- You'll partner closely with Analytics, Risk, and Platform/Infrastructure teams to make sure the data platform serves real business decisions, not just dashboards
- Managing and growing a team of data engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
- Owning architecture and design decisions for our data warehouse, transformation pipelines (dbt), and orchestration layer
- Actively participating in technical design reviews and code/PR reviews
- Driving our modernization roadmap, including our migration to Iceberg/Spark and to build a warehouse in medallion-tier architecture
- Partnering with Analytics, Risk, and Infrastructure teams to translate business and reporting needs into platform capabilities
- Establishing and enforcing data platform governance: model maturity standards, access controls, data quality checks
- Evaluating and introducing new tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure as the platform scales
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
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 2 more jobs at Self Financial