Software Engineer, Support Foundations

Chime

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Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
65 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 · Software Engineer, Support Foundations

As a Software Engineer, Support Foundations, you will join the team responsible for building the infrastructure powering every member support interaction. You will work on modernizing contact center systems, developing AI-powered self-service tools using LLMs, and creating automated conversation summarization features to improve agent efficiency. Your daily responsibilities include designing and scaling backend implementations, building robust APIs for mobile applications, and developing data pipelines for monitoring routing quality and operational health. The role involves managing IVR and authentication flows while ensuring high reliability for voice calls and live chats. To succeed, you must have experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks, transactional databases, and caching systems. You will solve complex problems regarding how members are routed to agents and how automated systems can provide seamless, real-time assistance across the entire support organization.

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What you'll do

  • Build and maintain core infrastructure for voice calls, live chat, and agent routing systems.
  • Develop AI-powered conversational flows to automate member self-service and intelligent hand-offs.
  • Implement real-time call and chat summarization features to improve agent efficiency.
  • Design systems for agent provisioning, skill assignment, and accurate contact routing.
  • Build secure IVR and authentication flows to verify members before connecting them to agents.
  • Develop data pipelines and monitoring dashboards to track routing quality and operational health.
  • Write clean, well-tested backend code while occasionally contributing to frontend or mobile features.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to incidents outside of regular working hours.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience developing software in a production environment at scale.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems.
  • Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
  • Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-tested backend code.
  • Capability to design, develop, test, refactor, and scale backend implementations for consumer products.
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to respond to incidents outside regular hours.
  • Startup experience is considered a plus.

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