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This role pays more than
75%
of similar roles. Most pay
$150,187–$209,975
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$212k
versus about
$180k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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
41 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$158,000–$227,000
across 40 roles with salary data.
The Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety joins the engineering team to provide technical leadership for the modernization of a core platform. This role involves driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and leading end-to-end projects to ensure a secure, frictionless member experience. Day-to-day responsibilities include building and maintaining low-latency APIs and backend services, improving platform reliability through observability and automation, and collaborating with data engineers and analysts to ship features. The position requires expertise in Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks, transactional databases, and caching systems. The work focuses on evolving risk architecture, experimentation, policy lifecycles, and ML integration capabilities to support smarter decision-making. Candidates must demonstrate experience with large-scale web application patterns and a commitment to maintaining well-tested code in a production environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Illinois?
Median $169310 from 88 postings across 33 companies.
Ruby on Rails
Distributed Systems
APIs
Transactional Databases
Asynchronous Processing
Caching
System Design
AI
Observability
Data Contracts
Integration Patterns
Reconciliation
Auditability