Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Chime

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, ILSan Francisco, CA
Salary
$223,000–$373,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $183,840–$233,875 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $298k versus about $209k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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

Chime currently has 38 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,000–$244,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

The Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety will join the high impact Trust and Safety group to lead the vision for a foundational pillar of the organization. This role involves providing technical and architectural guidance to multiple teams building scalable, extensible frameworks for risk experiences across every member checkpoint. You will design and evolve new capabilities, deliver secure and high-performance infrastructure and APIs, and mentor engineers in producing elegant, scalable code. The position requires a language and technology stack-agnostic mindset with strong competencies in distributed systems, high availability design, and building end-to-end member-facing features. The work focuses on fueling sustainable growth, protecting members, and reducing fraud losses and operational costs within a financial technology environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Illinois?

Median $174500 from 91 postings across 34 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Provide technical and architectural guidance to multiple teams building risk experience frameworks.
  • Design and evolve new and existing capabilities for the Trust and Safety organization.
  • Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs.
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in software development processes and infrastructure.
  • Write and guide engineers to produce elegant, scalable code with an owner's mindset.
  • Mentor others in designing architecture that scales to meet growing company needs.
  • Lead organization-level discovery and decision-making on critical architecture and technology.
  • Ensure technical decisions support quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Experience building and evolving high-scale back-end solutions.
  • Experience building end-to-end member-facing features and systems.
  • Strong competency in distributed systems, scalable and extensible platforms, and high availability design.
  • Experience leading and empowering multiple teams.
  • Language and technology stack-agnostic mindset.
  • Ability to work in an agile setting.

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