Tech Lead Manager, Platform

Chime

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $199,000–$275,000 / yr
Posted: 8 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 38 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Tech Lead Manager, Platform

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The Tech Lead Manager, Platform joins the CI/CD team to lead a small group of engineers in owning the integration and delivery surface for all engineers. In this player-coach role, you will spend over 40% of your time authoring production code while managing people, career coaching, and roadmap planning. You will build and maintain high-leverage platform surfaces including source and code intelligence, continuous integration, build pipelines, and release-safety layers. Key technologies include GitHub, Sourcegraph, CircleCI, Qlty, Artifactory, Kubernetes, Argo CD, and GitOps-based deployment. You must demonstrate proficiency in Ruby, Go, or Python while utilizing AI coding agents to improve velocity. Your work ensures safe, reliable, and efficient delivery of features by managing incident response, SLAs, and progressive delivery strategies like canaries and feature flagging.

Skills

CI/CD GitHub CircleCI Artifactory Sourcegraph Qlty Kubernetes Argo CD GitOps Ruby Go Python Datadog Feature Flagging Incident Response SLAs AI Coding Agents

What you'll do

Author and review production-ready pull requests to maintain the CI/CD codebase.
Manage the full lifecycle of a 4-person engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and performance reviews.
Own the technical direction, architecture, and roadmap for the build and integration systems.
Maintain the release-safety toolkit, including canaries, feature flagging, and rollback strategies.
Ensure the reliability of production pipelines through incident response, SLAs, and blameless learning.
Use AI coding agents and workflows to improve team velocity and reduce operational overhead.
Coordinate cross-functional requirements and technical dependencies with product, security, and infrastructure teams.
Balance the trade-offs between new feature development, security remediation, and technical debt.

What we're looking for

5+ years of software engineering experience.
2+ years of experience leading or managing engineers, including hiring and performance management.
Proven track record of delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems.
Hands-on experience with CI systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or comparable), build pipelines, and artifact management.
Strong development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or comparable languages.
Experience with progressive and safe delivery, including canaries, release gating, feature flagging, and rollback strategies.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitOps-based deployment in production.
Demonstrated use of AI coding agents and tooling to accelerate development and team velocity.
Experience with code intelligence and quality tooling (preferred).
Familiarity with common monitoring, logging, and observability platforms like Datadog (preferred).
Experience in financial services or other high-reliability, regulated environments (preferred).