Senior Software Engineer — Messaging & Workflow Platform

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 187,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office work policy

Backup care (child/elder/pet)

Subsidized commuter benefits

Health, financial, wellbeing benefits

Generous paid vacation and days off

Wellness stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Chime is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own messaging, caching, job processing, and workflow platforms that enable services to communicate reliably. You will work across messaging, caching, and workflow orchestration, enhancing shared Rails tooling, logging, and security.

The role emphasizes practical AI-enabled tooling to assist engineers while maintaining high-scale production systems. The base salary starts at $187,000 and goes up to $259,000, with bonuses, equity, and benefits for

Qualifications

• Strong Rails experience with a bto- build mindset and shipping production systems in a team.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with distributed, async processing and service communication patterns.

Responsibilities

• Automate upgrades, monitoring, and operations across the platform.
• Build self-serve tools for engineers to reduce wait times.
• Develop and maintain reliable, scalable platforms and libraries.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Async data-sharing

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS ElastiCache

SNS/SQS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Job description

Chime is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own messaging, caching, job processing, and workflow platforms that enable services to communicate reliably. You will work across messaging, caching, and workflow orchestration, enhancing shared Rails tooling, logging, and security.

The role emphasizes practical AI-enabled tooling to assist engineers while maintaining high-scale production systems. The base salary starts at $187,000 and goes up to $259,000, with bonuses, equity, and benefits for