Software Engineer, Financial Platform

Chime

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Work type: On-site
Location: New York, NYSan Francisco, CA
Salary: $133,000–$184,000 / yr
Posted: 127 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $183k

This role $158k

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This role pays less than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$215,325 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $158k versus about $183k 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 40 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $164,000–$251,500 across 40 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Financial Platform

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The Software Engineer, Financial Platform will join the infrastructure engineering team to build a new, highly reliable, and scalable financial platform. This role serves as the backbone for critical financial activities, requiring the development of secure, high-performance infrastructure and APIs. You will design, develop, test, and deploy components while collaborating with the QA team to ensure rigorous quality assurance. Key responsibilities include following test-driven development and agile methodologies, as well as participating in an on-call rotation. The ideal candidate possesses experience in Go, with preferred knowledge of Ruby, Java, or Python. You should have experience in payment processing systems and backend development. Bonus skills include familiarity with AWS, cloud-native technology, No-SQL databases, architectural patterns for mission-critical production services, and continuous integration/deployment environments.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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Skills

Go Ruby Java Python AWS Cloud Native No-SQL Agile APIs Payment Processing Systems

What you'll do

Design, develop, test, and deploy components of a new financial platform.
Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs.
Work with infrastructure engineering to minimize operational overhead of production systems.
Develop thoroughly tested code and conduct quality assurance with the QA team.
Execute on agile methodologies and follow a test-driven development approach.
Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to incidents outside of regular hours.

What we're looking for

Must have experience in Go.
Have 4+ years of engineering experience.
Have contributed to the development of backend systems.
Experience in payment processing systems.
Experience in additional backend languages such as Ruby, Java and Python (preferred).
Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, Cloud Native technology, and No-SQL Databases (bonus).
Understanding of architectural patterns of large, mission-critical production services (bonus).
Experience in continuous integration/deployment environments (bonus).

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