Software Engineer, Financial Platform

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us in building the new financial platform for Chime. This platform will power the most important financial activities that millions of Chime members leverage every day.

In this role, your main responsibility will be to collaborate with various teams at Chime to assess and address potential failure scenarios. You will work towards implementing essential technology foundations to enhance the resilience of our services. Additionally, you will be instrumental in developing a robust event streaming infrastructure that enables the Financial Platform to effectively process a large volume of events. Last but not least, you will also play a key role in implementing important security features while collaborating with the product security team.

You will ensure that we build the highest levels of trust with our members by making our platform lightning fast, available, secure, and auditable. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a high-visibility team that will be pivotal to the future of Chime.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $149,300 and up to $207,300 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.

In this role, you can expect to 

• Collaborate with other teams to design, develop, test, and deploy tools, libraries, and services to solve cross-cutting problems 
• Enable fellow engineers to develop faster and more efficiently
• Lead best practices to promote the culture of engineering excellence
• Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs
• Work with our infrastructure engineering team to minimize the operational overhead of production systems we deploy

To thrive in this role you

• Hold 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Have built and managed complex software in Go
• Have curiosity about how systems work and a strong desire to learn
• Have designed, developed, and supported large-scale distributed systems
• Have experience in observability and monitoring of production systems
• Have a deep understanding of architectural patterns of large, mission-critical production services
• Are comfortable with solving difficult problems that are not well defined and thrive in an environment that requires you to think iteratively
• Take a rigorous approach towards testing code and have worked in continuous integration/deployment environments.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms and operating Kubernetes in production environments

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What we offer

• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days
• 🖥 Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified ap