Backed by SoftBank VF, ICONIQ and Menlo.
About the role
We're looking for a Technical Lead Manager (TLM) to lead our CI/CD team , the group that owns how every Chime engineer builds, integrates, and safely ships code. Your team owns the integration and delivery surface: source and code intelligence ( GitHub , Sourcegraph ), continuous integration and build ( CircleCI , Qlty ), artifacts ( Artifactory ), and the release-safety layer that gets changes to production without breaking it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years leading or managing engineers , including hiring, performance management, and career development, with the appetite and ability to stay hands-on in the codebase
- A track record of delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems : continuous integration, build pipelines, artifact management, or progressive delivery
- Hands-on experience with CI systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or comparable), build pipelines, and artifact management in production (must-have)
- Hands-on technical depth you can still exercise: you author and review production PRs and can lead technical design, not just delegate it. Strong development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or comparable languages
- Experience with progressive and safe delivery : canaries, release gating, feature flagging, and rollback strategies
- Strong understanding of operating production systems at scale : reliability, observability, incident response, and the operational discipline platform ownership demands
More about this role
We're looking for a Technical Lead Manager (TLM) to lead our CI/CD team , the group that owns how every Chime engineer builds, integrates, and safely ships code. Your team owns the integration and delivery surface: source and code intelligence ( GitHub , Sourcegraph ), continuous integration and build ( CircleCI , Qlty ), artifacts ( Artifactory ), and the release-safety layer that gets changes to production without breaking it. Your team's mission is continuous, safe, reliable, and efficient integration and delivery of features. Every merge and every deployment at Chime runs through what your team builds.
This is a player-coach role . Under Chime's Builder Operating Model, the TLM is a single accountable owner at the team level. You own both delivery and people for a small team, and you stay hands-on in the codebase. You'll spend about 40%+ of your time building , authoring PRs that land in production, with the remainder split across people management, planning, and other business processes. You'll lead a team of 4 engineers, own the roadmap for a high-leverage platform surface, and be directly accountable for the reliability of the pipelines and release systems in the critical...
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