Senior Software Engineer, AI & App Experience

Chime

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New York, NYSan Francisco, CA
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147 days ago
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About Chime

Chime is a financial technology company offering mobile-first banking services including fee-free checking accounts, savings accounts, and a secured credit builder card through partner banks. Industry: Financial Technology & Neobanking

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, AI & App Experience

As a Senior Software Engineer, AI & App Experience, you will join the team building Jade, an AI-powered financial assistant. You will work across the full breadth of the product lifecycle, including designing agent capabilities, conversation experiences, and evaluation frameworks to ensure reliability and safety. Your daily responsibilities involve developing member-facing features for spending management and subscription tracking, alongside internal tools for model routing, prompt management, and agent orchestration. To succeed in this role, you must possess over five years of backend experience, proficiency with Python or comparable frameworks, and expertise in AI tooling and native development. You will also utilize transactional databases like Postgres and caching systems such as Redis to build scalable solutions. The work focuses on the technical challenges of shipping LLM-powered products and solving complex problems within the financial technology domain.

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What you'll do

  • Design and scale new capabilities for Jade, an AI-powered financial assistant.
  • Develop agent architectures, prompt strategies, and orchestration patterns to guide AI reasoning.
  • Build evaluation frameworks, observability tools, and guardrail systems to ensure model reliability.
  • Create internal tools, dashboards, and backend services for model routing and prompt management.
  • Develop member-facing features to help users manage spending, subscriptions, and financial goals.
  • Improve system reliability through performance tuning and architectural enhancements.
  • Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to maintain high technical standards across the codebase.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of backend software development experience in production environments.
  • Proficiency with AI tooling and AI native development.
  • Proficiency with Python or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience with transactional databases like Postgres and caching systems like Redis.
  • Familiarity with architectural patterns in high-scale systems.
  • A strong focus on writing maintainable, well-tested code.
  • Experience with agent development, fintech, or startup environments (preferred).

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