Lead Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety Platform

Chime; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Chime is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership, shaping system architecture and API design across our Trust & Safety platform. You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end initiatives, and ensure secure, reliable services that scale with member growth.

You will collaborate with data engineers and analysts, implement robust testing, and uphold high engineering standards while contributing to cross-team initiatives that keep Chime at the forefront of fintech.

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.
• Appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code.
• Desire to learn and dive into the deepest levels of how things work.
• Start-up experience is a 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.

Skills

Backend development

Ruby on Rails

Transactional databases

Caching systems

System architecture

Maintainable code

Learning mindset

Startup experience

Job description

Chime is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership, shaping system architecture and API design across our Trust & Safety platform. You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end initiatives, and ensure secure, reliable services that scale with member growth.

You will collaborate with data engineers and analysts, implement robust testing, and uphold high engineering standards while contributing to cross-team initiatives that keep Chime at the forefront of fintech.