Sr. IT Systems Engineer, AI & Business Solutions at Dave

Job description

Dave vs. Goliath. We’re Dave. 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 hiring a Senior IT Systems Engineer to help design and scale how we manage compliance, security, and audit readiness at Dave. This role focuses on building systems and automation that make compliance continuous, reliable, and embedded into how we operate. The Opportunity You’ll operate at the intersection of IT, security, and compliance, and you’ll be an influential contributor for a team that helps design systems to replace manual audit work with automated, scalable solutions. This includes automating evidence collection, strengthening IT General Controls, and integrating tools so compliance becomes part of day-to-day workflows rather than a periodic exercise. This is a high-impact role with real ownership. You’ll help shape how we scale our internal process through better systems, working across teams to turn requirements into durable, low-friction solutions. What You’ll Build & Own • Automate or optimize high-volume manual processes (audit evidence collection, data gathering, compliance reporting) using APIs and workflows to reduce manual effort and human error • Build integrations that pull data from systems of record (Okta, Workspace, GitHub, Security tools, Google Cloud, Snowflake) and consolidate it in BigQuery for audit readiness and analytics • Design and implement agentic workflows that allow non-engineering stakeholders to interact with company data and reports through conversational interfaces, reducing their need to manually query or compile information • Own the operational lifecycle of integrations: monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and evolving them as business requirements change • Identify manual handoffs and repetitive tasks across IT, audit, and business functions, then build automation or agent-driven solutions to eliminate them • Work cross-functionally with business teams to understand pain points, translate them into technical solutions, and measure the impact on time savings and compliance readiness • Build scalable, resilient, and secure systems The Impact Your work will enable Dave to scale securely with greater confidence, reducing audit overhead while increasing trust in our systems and controls. What We’re Looking For Experience & Technical Foundation • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent four-year degree) required • 5–7 years of experience in IT systems engineering, automation, internal web services or a related technical role • Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python) for building integrations and automation • Experience building agents and end-to-end automation across systems using APIs, scripting, or workflow platforms • Hands-on experience with GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage) and understanding infrastructure as code (e.g. terraform) • Hands-on experience with GitHub or equivalent version control, including CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployments) • Strong foundation in consuming and integrating APIs: handling auth