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About the Role
Chime is hiring an engineer to scale and evolve its Cards portfolio. This role involves high-impact projects across service architecture, collaborating with product, risk, and design partners to deliver resilient, secure systems. While the focus is backend, the ideal candidate is eager to contribute wherever needed.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical design and architectural decisions, while mentoring engineers and fostering cross-functional collaboration
- Lead and contribute to multiple projects simultaneously, balancing ownership of key initiatives with support across broader team efforts
- Build and maintain robust, low-latency APIs and backend services that power our Trust and Safety platforms
- Become the domain expert in our platform architecture, providing technical decisions and solutions to refine our maturing platforms
- Partner with data engineers, analysts, and product managers to ship impactful features that enhance member protection and experience
- Improve platform reliability and performance through thoughtful system architecture, observability practices, and automation
- Evolve our experimentation, policy lifecycle, and ML integration capabilities to support smarter and faster decision-making at scale
- Participate in on-call rotation, including responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing software in a production environment at scale
- Prior experience serving as a technical lead for a team and on complex projects—driving architectural decisions, coordinating execution, and aligning cross-functional teams
- Proven experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks
- Experience with transactional databases and caching systems
- Deep understanding of architectural patterns for large-scale web applications
- Commitment to mentoring engineers and fostering team development
- An appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code
- Curiosity and passion for diving deeply into system architectures and technical challenges
- Experience in fast-paced or early-stage environments is a strong plus
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $164,000.00 - $227,000.00
Benefits
- Bonus
- Competitive equity package
- Backup child, elder, and pet care
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 1% of your time off to support local community organizations
- Annual wellness stipend
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Access to family planning reimbursement
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. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.
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: accommodations@chime.com.