Lead Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety Platform

Chime; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four days in office

Wellbeing and wellness programs

Parental leave

Job summary

Chime Engineering is growing rapidly and seeking a Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership in the Risk platform. You will help evolve our risk architecture, enabling deeper insights and stronger protections for our members and their financial progress.

You’ll lead projects end-to-end, set technical direction, design APIs, mentor engineers, work with data teams, and ensure reliability and performance across services. On-call responsibilities may apply.

Qualifications

• 3+ years developing software in a production environment at scale.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks.
• Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• An appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code.
• A desire to learn and dive into the deepest levels of how things work.
• Start-up experience as an added plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features.
• Work with the mobile team to design and build strong, resilient APIs that propel our mobile app.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand member struggles and come up with creative solutions.
• Proactively find opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems.
• Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards.
• Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation. Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary.

Skills

Backend development

Ruby on Rails

APIs design

Scalability

Job description

Chime Engineering is growing rapidly and seeking a Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership in the Risk platform. You will help evolve our risk architecture, enabling deeper insights and stronger protections for our members and their financial progress.

You’ll lead projects end-to-end, set technical direction, design APIs, mentor engineers, work with data teams, and ensure reliability and performance across services. On-call responsibilities may apply.