About the Role
Chime is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own messaging, caching, job processing, and workflow platforms. The Messaging Platforms team builds frameworks and operational patterns that enable product engineers to move quickly while ensuring reliability, scalability, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Automate upgrades, monitoring, and operations across the platform.
- Build self-service tools for engineers to reduce dependency.
- Develop and maintain reliable, scalable platforms and libraries.
- Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams on cross-cutting technical problems.
- Reduce operational overhead through collaboration with infrastructure teams.
- Advise engineering teams on communication and data-sharing patterns.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of async and synchronous data-sharing patterns including pub/sub, RPC, and caching.
- Strong Ruby/Rails experience.
- Familiarity with AWS services such as ElastiCache, SNS, and SQS.
- Experience with infrastructure tooling including Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Experience with large-scale production systems and their associated tradeoffs.
- Comfort working in CI/CD environments.
- Proven track record of shipping production systems as part of a team.
Skills
- Ruby
- Rails
- Python
- Go
- AWS
- Terraform
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Messaging systems
- Caching
- Workflow orchestration
- CI/CD
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $187,000 - $259,000
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Competitive equity package
- 401k match
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Company-wide Chime Days
- 1% of 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 family planning tool with $15k lifetime reimbursement
- Subsidized commuter benefit
- Backup child, elder, and pet care
About the Company
- Chime is a financial technology company focused on making banking services helpful, easy, and free.
- The company empowers members to take control of their finances and achieve financial progress.
- The culture is entrepreneurial, emphasizing bold action, diverse perspectives, and integrity.
Equal Opportunity
- Chime is an Equal Opportunity Employer considering 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.
