About this role
About the role
Chime’s Cards org is hiring an engineer to help scale and evolve Cards portfolio. In this role, you’ll dive into high-impact projects across our service architecture, collaborating with product, risk, and design partners to deliver resilient, secure systems. While your focus will be backend, we're looking for someone who’s excited to roll up their sleeves and contribute wherever it’s needed most to move the team forward
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
• 5+ 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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Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
Wage Notice $164,000 — $227,000 USD
A little about us
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 help