Full Stack Engineer, Communication Platform

About The Role

We’re looking for a strong engineer who has a passion for building scalable systems and who can help drive and innovate on our communication platform at Chime! In this role, you would be developing fullstack, from building out our backend infrastructure, to defining the messaging interface on our apps for our members. As a foundational member of this team, you would drive key architectural changes to the layer that powers messaging for millions of members.

The Communication Platform team strives to provide a high quality platform to help our members work towards better financial health, while accelerating development velocity within Chime. As a small and forward-thinking team, each person has a profound impact on the experience of each of our millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, release, and scale changes to our mobile and backend architecture.
• Collaborate effectively with the cross-functional team to solve sophisticated problems within the team domain.
• Develop thoroughly tested code and conduct quality assurance on all new code.
• Work in a team as well as independently to deliver on goals to accelerate development velocity while delivering the best experience to our members.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years experience in fullstack development.
• Experience in backend development and frameworks (Bonus: GraphQL, Ruby).
• Experience in mobile development and frameworks (Bonus: React Native).
• Experience working cross-functionally and collaborating well with team members.
• Understanding of architectural patterns of large production services built for scale.
• Ability to safely make changes without disrupting and introducing regressions to millions of users.
• A passion for learning and sharing knowledge alongside teammates, with self-motivation and keen attention to detail.
• A strong empathy for the users of the products you build.

What We Offer

• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience.
• ✨ 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days.
• 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice.
• 🧠 Mental health support with therapy and coaching through Modern Health.
• 👶 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and an additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents.
• 👪 Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with up to $10k in reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
• 💻 Hybrid work perks, like UrbanSitter and Kinside for backup child, elder and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit.
• 🏢 A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location to ensure you stay connected to your work and teammates, whether you’re local to one of our offices or remote.
• 🎉 In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers—think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress.

We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.