Senior Software Engineer, Lending

Chime

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New York, NYSan Francisco, CA
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44 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, Lending

Senior Software Engineer, Lending joins the Lending team to build products and platforms providing members with credit and liquidity through features like Earned Wage Access, overdraft options, and Instant Loans. This role sits at the intersection of member-facing products and backend infrastructure, requiring the engineer to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams while designing systems for correctness, reliability, and scalability. You will develop core financial systems including underwriting, ledgering, capital markets workflows, and repayment services. The ideal candidate possesses over eight years of experience in production software, specifically with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks, transactional databases, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems. This role solves complex problems in the fintech domain where high-integrity requirements for auditability and real-time money movement are paramount. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to turn ambiguous goals into durable technical solutions.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build backend systems for lending products including credit risk, capital markets, and repayment systems.
  • Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of complex initiatives that span multiple teams and technical domains.
  • Define and evolve APIs, integration patterns, and data contracts to ensure safety and scalability.
  • Translate ambiguous requirements from cross-functional partners into practical, high-leverage technical solutions.
  • Build for high reliability by ensuring system correctness, auditability, and robust error handling.
  • Convert one-off product needs into reusable platform capabilities to increase overall engineering velocity.
  • Mentor other engineers through design reviews and provide technical feedback to improve team quality.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead efforts to turn production incidents into lasting infrastructure improvements.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production software at scale with a track record of owning backend systems end-to-end.
  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals, preferably with Ruby on Rails or a comparable framework.
  • Experience building APIs and distributed systems in production environments.
  • Proficiency with transactional databases, asynchronous processing, caching, and large-scale application architecture.
  • Proven ability to lead complex projects across multiple teams, systems, or business workflows.
  • Experience in high-integrity domains such as fintech, lending, banking, payments, or risk.
  • Strong system design judgment regarding correctness, scalability, resiliency, speed, and maintainability.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence cross-functional teams through clear communication.

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