About the Role
Chime is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building Jade, an AI-powered financial assistant within the AI & App Experience (AAX) organization. This role involves leading engineers in developing AI capabilities, guiding architectural decisions, and fostering an AI-native engineering culture. The position requires setting team objectives, ensuring technical quality and safety, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver member-first solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers building Jade, while staying hands-on enough to guide technical direction
- Ensure technical decisions support our bar for quality, reliability, and safety, and map to team, organization, and company-level priorities
- Set team objectives in alignment with business goals, establish a sense of urgency and direction, and set clear expectations with the team and individuals
- Foster an AI-native engineering culture: champion AI-assisted development, set the quality gates that keep AI-generated output production-ready, and help the team turn one-off AI workflows into systems the whole team reuses
- Guide the team in shipping LLM-powered capabilities, from agent experiences and evals to the guardrails and observability that keep Jade reliable at the scale of millions of members
- Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Risk to launch precise, member-first solutions
- Coach and grow engineers around project execution, skill development, and career progression
- Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement, where the team takes smart risks
- Ensure the team maintains strong on-call, monitoring, and incident-response practices for the systems it owns
- Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of Chime's engineering leadership community
Requirements
- Experience as a software engineer, with depth in relevant tech (e.g., Python, Ruby, React Native, distributed systems, AWS services, and service-oriented architectures) and a deep empathy toward engineering happiness
- 2+ years of people management experience, including coaching engineers on project execution, skill development, and career progression
- AI-native fluency: you build with LLMs and AI tooling yourself, and you actively foster that practice across your team rather than treating it as someone else's job
- Familiarity with the challenges of shipping LLM-powered products (agents, evals, prompt strategies, or guardrails), or a strong drive to come up to speed quickly
- Experience ensuring technical decisions support quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
- Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to find new ways to deliver for our members
- A fascination with how to make teams and people thrive, and the ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals
- Enjoyment in learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work
Skills
- Python
- Ruby
- React Native
- Distributed systems
- AWS services
- Service-oriented architectures
- LLMs
- AI tooling
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2+ years of people management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $199,000.00 - $275,000.00
Benefits
- Bonus
- Competitive equity package
- Backup child, elder, and/or pet care
- Subsidized commuter benefit
- 401k match
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Company-wide Chime Days
- Company-wide paid days off
- 1% of your time off to support local community organizations
- Annual wellness stipend
- Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
About the Company
- At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress. We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. Our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.
Equal Opportunity
- Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: benefits@chime.com.
