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Senior Software Engineer, Cards

Chime · San Francisco, CA, USA · On-site

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About Chime

Backed by SoftBank VF, ICONIQ and Menlo.

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

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this 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

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $164,000.00 and up to $227,000.00. 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.

  • 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...

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