Tech Lead Manager, Lending Platform & AI-Driven Growth

Flourish Ventures; United States; Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Wellbeing benefits

Parental leave (up to 22 weeks)

Job summary

Chime’s Lending organization is looking for an experienced engineering leader to own the squad’s technical direction, architecture, and delivery of real-time money movement and decisioning infrastructure.

You will hire, coach, and grow engineers, mentor product engineers, and partner with Product and Design on quarterly plans while maintaining a high quality bar. This role blends hands-on coding with people leadership and a clear path to Staff Engineer or future TLM.

Qualifications

• Direct experience in lending, payments, or other regulated financial systems.
• Managed engineers directly with full people-management ownership.
• Hands-on technically while leading a team.
• Experience introducing AI-driven practices to improve velocity.
• Ability to resolve technical debates and balance speed with durability.

Responsibilities

• Author and ship scoped, incremental features hands-on.
• Own the squad's technical direction, architecture, and code quality; lead design discussions, code reviews, and planning.
• Identify technical debt and advocate for sustainable engineering practices.
• Provide full people management for 3–5 direct reports, including 1:1s and performance feedback.
• Drive hiring and staffing for the squad, building an inclusive, high-performing team.
• Mentor product engineers on technical and product growth.
• Build a path for engineers toward Staff Engineer or future TLM role.
• Partner with Product and Design on sprint scope and delivery commitments.

Skills

People management

Tech leadership

Lending domain knowledge

AI coding tools

Hiring & coaching

Job description

Chime’s Lending organization is looking for an experienced engineering leader to own the squad’s technical direction, architecture, and delivery of real-time money movement and decisioning infrastructure.

You will hire, coach, and grow engineers, mentor product engineers, and partner with Product and Design on quarterly plans while maintaining a high quality bar. This role blends hands-on coding with people leadership and a clear path to Staff Engineer or future TLM.