Senior Software Engineer, Financial Platform

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build our new financial platform that is highly reliable, scalable, and will serve as the backbone for Chime. This platform will power the most important financial activities that millions of Chime members undertake every day. You will ensure that we build the highest levels of trust with our members by making our platform lightning-fast, available, secure, resilient, and auditable. This is an exciting opportunity to be an invaluable member of a strategically important initiative for Chime.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy components of a new financial platform.
• Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs.
• Work with our infrastructure engineering team to minimize the operational overhead of production systems you deploy.
• Develop thoroughly tested code and conduct quality assurance on all new code alongside our QA team.
• Learn and execute on agile methodologies, follow a test-driven development approach.
• Be on an on-call rotation to address any issues with the platform.

Requirements

• Must have experience in Go.
• Experience in additional backend languages such as Ruby, Java, and Python is preferred.
• Have 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Have contributed to the development of backend systems.
• Experience in payment processing systems.
• Take a rigorous approach to testing backed development.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, Cloud Native technology, No-SQL Databases as a bonus.
• Have an understanding of architectural patterns of large, mission-critical production services as a bonus.
• Have worked in continuous integration/deployment environments as a bonus.

What We Offer

• A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location.
• Hybrid work perks, like UrbanSitter and Kinside for backup child, elder, and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit.
• 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.
• 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.