Lead Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety & Risk

Chime Financial, Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office policy: 4 days/week

Fridays from home

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Chime is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Trust & Safety platform in San Francisco. You will provide technical leadership, shape system architecture, mentor engineers, and own key projects end-to-end, delivering secure, scalable APIs for our member-facing services.

You will collaborate with data engineers and analysts, drive reliability, and uphold high technical standards across the backend stack. If you enjoy building resilient systems at scale in a fast-paced startup-like environment,

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

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Chime is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our Trust & Safety platform in San Francisco. You will provide technical leadership, shape system architecture, mentor engineers, and own key projects end-to-end, delivering secure, scalable APIs for our member-facing services.

You will collaborate with data engineers and analysts, drive reliability, and uphold high technical standards across the backend stack. If you enjoy building resilient systems at scale in a fast-paced startup-like environment,