engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoSoftware Engineer, Deposits & Insights
at Chime
San Francisco Usa, United StatesOn-site
ruby$15,000
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Experience in fast-paced or early-stage environments is a strong plus #LI-Onsite #LI-AA1 A little about us
Benefits
- 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-office perks including backup child, elder, and/or pet care, plus a subsidized commuter benefit to support your regular commute
- 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
- ✨ 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus company-wide paid days off
- 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- 👶 Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- 👪 Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
Contact
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: benefits@chime.com .
Additional details
- 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.
- 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
- 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 •
- At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress.
- We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free.