
Chime
Actively Hiring
Providing financial peace of mind for millions of people
- B2C
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
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About the job
About the Role
The Deposit & Insights team is looking for a skilled backend engineer to join our team. You'll be leveraging deeply individualized spending insights and member spending behavior to give our members access to the best tools that enable them to spend safely. This role involves collaborating cross functionally, experimenting quickly, and iterating on solutions to find the best points of conversion.
The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $133,000 and up to $184,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
In this role, you can expect to
- Drive technical design and architectural decisions, while mentoring engineers and fostering cross-functional collaboration
- Lead and contribute to multiple projects simultaneously, balancing ownership of key initiatives with support across broader team efforts
- Build and maintain robust, low-latency APIs and backend services that power our Trust and Safety platforms
- Become the domain expert in our platform architecture, providing technical decisions and solutions to refine our maturing platforms
- Partner with data engineers, analysts, and product managers to ship impactful features that enhance member protection and experience
- Improve platform reliability and performance through thoughtful system architecture, observability practices, and automation
- Evolve our experimentation, policy lifecycle, and ML integration capabilities to support smarter and faster decision-making at scale
- Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation. Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary.
To thrive in this role, you have
- 3+ years of experience developing software in a production environment at scale
- Prior experience serving as a technical lead for a team and on complex projects—driving architectural decisions, coordinating execution, and aligning cross-functional teams
- Proven experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks
- Experience with transactional databases and caching systems
- Deep understanding of architectural patterns for large-scale web applications
- Commitment to mentoring engineers and fostering team development
- An appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code
- Curiosity and passion for diving deeply into system architectures and technical challenges
- Experience in fast-paced or early-stage environments is a strong plus
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About the company
- B2C
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
Perks
Healthcare Coverage
Our healthcare coverage includes medical and dental insurance.
Retirement Plan
We offer employees the option to contribute to their 401k plan.
Supporting Families
We offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents to help you welcome your new additions. Our office has an onsite dedicated Mother's Room for those who need it.
Flexible PTO
Need a vacay? Take one. Life just threw you a curveball? Go get that work-life balance! We offer a flexible PTO policy.
Health & Wellness
To make fueling up at work easier, we offer healthy snacks, a variety of beverages, two catered meals per week, and the option to expense dinners if you are a night owl!
Commuter benefits
Get to and from work easier with out commuter benefits.
Dog-Friendly Office
We love our dogs of Chime! As long as your pup is house trained, good with people and other dogs, we welcome them in!
Learning and Development
We offer each Chimer a stipend for professional development to use on online courses, conferences, certifications and more!
Team Building and Offsites
We're a ton of fun - We work hard and have fun while we're at it! Picnics, escape room outings, happy hours, Giants games, and the list goes on.
Pledge 1%
We pledge to give 1% of our time towards charitable work and volunteer frequently as a company.
Chimiversaries
We celebrate your tenure milestones by rewarding you with travel stipends and swag!
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