Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Chime; Chicago (IL); Híbrido; USD 223 000 - 373 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Backup child care

Subsidized commuter benefits

Health, financial & wellbeing benefits

Resumo da oferta

Chime seeks Senior Staff and Staff Engineers to lead the high-impact Trust and Safety group, shaping the vision for a foundational pillar of the company. You will provide technical and architectural guidance across multiple teams, crafting scalable risk frameworks and secure infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering leadership, and help ensure performance, reliability, and security while supporting growth and reducing fraud

Qualificações

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Built and evolved high-scale back-end solutions.
• End to end member facing features and systems experience.
• Strong competency in distributed systems and scalable platforms.
• Experience leading multiple teams.

Responsabilidades

• Lead cross-functional vision with engineering and product leadership.
• Design and evolve new and existing capabilities.
• Deliver secure, reliable, high-performance infrastructure and APIs.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in development and infrastructure.
• Write and guide engineers to produce scalable code with ownership mindset.
• Mentor others in design and architecture.
• Act as Team Lead when needed on projects.
• Ensure decisions meet quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.
• Contribute to organization-level architecture decisions with domain expertise.

Conhecimentos

Distributed systems

Back-end architecture

Team leadership

Agile

Language-agnostic

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the Role

the company is looking for Senior Staff and Staff Engineers to lead our high impact member Trust and Safety group. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the vision for one of the company’s foundational pillars.

The Trust and Safety organization is tasked with fueling sustainable growth, protecting our members, and reducing fraud losses and operational costs. You will provide technical and architectural guidance to multiple teams crafting industry defining solutions. These teams are responsible for providing scalable, extensible frameworks to create smooth and streamlined risk experiences across every checkpoint of a member’s experience at the company. You will work function-wide across the company’s engineering and cross-functional teams to deliver Trust and Safety’s vision.

In this role, you can expect to

• Work with engineering and product leadership to build cross-functional vision
• Design and evolve new and existing capabilities
• Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs
• Identify and help resolve bottlenecks in our software development process and infrastructure
• Write and guide engineers to produce elegant, scalable code, with an owner's mindset
• Serve as a mentor, leading others in designing elegant code and architecture that scales to meet the company's growing needs
• As needed, play the role of Team Lead during the course of a project
• Ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals
• Contribute to the organization-level discovery, vetting and decision-making on critical architecture and technology, bringing your domain expertise into larger conversations

To thrive in this role, you have

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering
• Previously built and evolved high-scale back-end solutions
• Passion and previous experience in building end to end member facing features and systems
• Strong competency in distributed systems, scalable and extensible platforms high availability design
• Experience with leading and empowering multiple teams
• Language and technology stack-agnostic mindset
• Ability to work in agile setting

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Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Wage Notice

$223,000—$373,000 USD

A little about us

At the company, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created the company—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.

Because if we don't—who will?

*the company is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.

What we offer for our full-time, regular employees

• Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
• Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
• Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every sta