Senior Software Engineer, Cards
164 000 – 227 000 $в год
ChimeSan Francisco и ещё 2 городаГибридот 5 лет
SQLBackendFintechAPISoftware EngineeringAPIsdatabasesSystem ArchitectureRuby on RailsCachingTransactional Databases
Описание
Chime’s Cards org is hiring an engineer to help scale and evolve its Cards portfolio. In this role, you’ll dive into high-impact projects across the service architecture, collaborating with product, risk, and design partners to deliver resilient, secure systems. While the focus will be backend, the role requires someone who’s excited to roll up their sleeves and contribute wherever it’s needed most to move the team forward.
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 Trust and Safety platforms
- Become the domain expert in the platform architecture, providing technical decisions and solutions to refine 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 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience in fast-paced or early-stage environments is a strong plus
We offer
- 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
- Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location
- Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life
- Generous vacation policy and 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 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Access to family planning reimbursement
- A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress