Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Chicago Usa, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Automate upgrades, monitoring, and operations across the platform.
Build tools that let engineers across Chime self-serve — so they spend less time waiting on us.
Build and maintain reliable, scalable platforms and libraries.
Reduce operational overhead through close collaboration with infra.
Advise engineering teams on communication and data-sharing patterns. To thrive in this role, you have
A track record of shipping production systems as part of a team.

AI-enabled engineering — finding practical ways to help Chime engineers use AI more effectively: automation, agent-ready tooling, platform capabilities that make AI-assisted development safer
Solid understanding of async and synchronous data-sharing patterns — pub/sub, RPC, caching, and when to use each.
Familiarity with AWS (ElastiCache, SNS/SQS) and infrastructure tooling like Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker. •
Experience with large-scale production systems and the tradeoffs that come with them.

The base salary offered for this role and level of
experience will begin at $187,000.00 and up to $259,000.00.
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.
Strong Ruby/Rails experience; Python or Go is a bonus.
💻 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.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: benefits@chime.com .

The Messaging Platforms team sits between infrastructure and product.
We build the frameworks, libraries, and operational patterns that let product engineers move quickly without having to carry the full complexity of messaging.
When we do our jobs well, teams feel confident: messaging is reliable, scalable, observable, and easy to build on. You'll work on:
Messaging and job processing — local and distributed async processing, service-to-service communication, and reliability work
Caching — Redis governance, usage patterns, and operational tooling
Workflow orchestration — running and improving the platforms teams use for scheduled jobs and long-running workflows (Temporal, Cronitor)
Shared Rails tooling — logging, tracing, security, PII masking, schema enforcement, and other shared concerns
There's a lot to do. We want someone who can figure out which problems are worth solving, ship something, measure whether it worked, and adjust. Not someone who ships and disappears.
Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams on cross-cutting technical problems.
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