Technical Lead Backend Engineer – Trust & Safety Platform

Chime Enterprise; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four days in office

Fridays from home

Comprehensive benefits

Wellness stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Chime Engineering in Chicago, IL is seeking a Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership and help modernize a risk platform. You will design and implement resilient APIs, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable performance for our members.

The role focuses on scaling backend systems, collaborating with data teams, and maintaining high standards. On-call responsibilities may be required; remote/hybrid options are available depending on location.

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

Backend development

API design

System architecture

On-call experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST APIs

Job description

Chime Engineering in Chicago, IL is seeking a Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership and help modernize a risk platform. You will design and implement resilient APIs, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable performance for our members.

The role focuses on scaling backend systems, collaborating with data teams, and maintaining high standards. On-call responsibilities may be required; remote/hybrid options are available depending on location.