Senior Software Engineer (Chicago)

Chime

Hybrid Actively hiring Posted this week
Chicago, IL Posted 3 days ago $204,000–$204,000 / year
View original post Log in to save

At a glance

AI generated

TL;DR

As a Senior Engineer on the Trust & Safety team at Chime Engineering, you will lead technical initiatives that enhance our risk architecture and protect member experiences. You’ll drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data teams to implement robust APIs and backend services. Your role involves becoming an expert in platform architecture, improving reliability through observability practices, and integrating machine learning for smarter decision-making at scale. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of production software development experience, a track record as a technical lead on complex projects, and proficiency with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks. Additionally, you should be adept at working in fast-paced environments, committed to fostering team growth, and passionate about diving deep into system architectures.

Skills

Ruby on Rails Docker Kubernetes AWS CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis Python JavaScript GraphQL RESTful APIs Microservices MVP Scalability Observability Terraform Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Lead the modernization of Chime Platforms within Trust & Safety, setting technical direction.
  • Mentor engineers and foster cross-functional collaboration on complex projects.
  • Build and maintain low-latency APIs and backend services for Trust and Safety platforms.
  • Enhance platform reliability and performance through system architecture improvements.
  • Partner with data teams to implement impactful features enhancing member protection.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience developing software in production at scale.
  • Proven track record as a technical lead on complex projects, driving architecture and team alignment.
  • Expertise with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks and transactional databases.
  • Deep knowledge of large-scale web application architectural patterns.
  • Commitment to mentoring engineers and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
  • Experience improving platform reliability through observability practices and automation.

Employer

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

Chime currently has 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $227,000–$227,000 across 25 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Chime