Lead Data Engineer

Dave

2d • $174,000 - $224,000 • Remote

About The Position

Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. It is redefining the financial landscape by leveraging technology to create an affordable, transparent, and user-centric access to liquidity for millions of Americans. As a leading innovator in the U.S. financial services sector, Dave’s digital financial platform offers products designed to meet the credit needs of those underserved by traditional financial institutions. Dave’s offerings include its flagship ExtraCash product, providing members up to $500 within minutes. The company is on track to launch several new product offerings in 2026, including a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option. Dave is focused on serving Americans who are financially vulnerable or living paycheck to paycheck. Dave is leading the charge in creating a new era of credit products that prioritizes speed, affordability, and accessibility, making it the go-to financial partner for those who need it most. We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the data systems that power decision-making across Dave. You’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, shaping how we build reliable, scalable data infrastructure as the business grows. This role has meaningful ownership across Dave’s data platform. You’ll work across business domains and platform capabilities, solving complex data challenges while helping establish the technical patterns that make our systems easier to build, operate, and scale. You’ll partner closely with engineering and business teams to turn evolving needs into durable solutions. Not everything will be fully defined—you’ll help clarify the path, make thoughtful architecture trade-offs, and ensure we’re building systems that hold up over time.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software or data engineering experience, including significant ownership of production data systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, along with solid software engineering fundamentals including testing, code review, version control, and CI/CD.
• Experience with a modern cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Experience with orchestration and transformation frameworks such as Airflow/Cloud Composer and dbt, or comparable technologies.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, incremental processing, data quality, observability, and production recovery.
• Demonstrated architecture judgment and experience providing technical leadership and mentorship across teams.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, clarify ownership, and communicate technical and business trade-offs clearly.

Nice To Haves

• Fintech or other high-stakes or regulated data experience.
• CDC, streaming, event-driven, or high-volume integration experience.
• Experience with GCP technologies such as Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage.
• Experience with metadata, lineage, semantic layers, governance, privacy, or AI-ready data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, operation, and evolution of production data pipelines and core platform capabilities.
• Build and improve integrations across APIs, files, CDC and event sources, cloud services, and internal systems.
• Establish strong patterns for data modeling, orchestration, testing, data quality, observability, retries, backfills, and recovery.
• Improve Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow/Cloud Composer workloads with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and cost.
• Lead technical design reviews, clarify system boundaries, and help teams make thoughtful architecture and delivery trade-offs.
• Strengthen the broader engineering organization through mentorship, documentation, standards, and durable solutions that reduce operational burden and single-person dependencies.

Benefits

• Opportunity to tackle tough challenges, learn and grow from fellow top talent, and help millions of people reach their personal financial goals
• Flexible hours and virtual-first work culture with a home office stipend
• Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans
• Generous paid parental and caregiver leave
• 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions
• Financial advisor and financial wellness support
• Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break
• All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events throughout to connect with your team members and leadership team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed