Software Engineer, Financial Platform

About the Role

Chime is seeking a Software Engineer to help build a new financial platform supporting the financial activities of millions of members. The platform must be reliable, scalable, fast, available, secure, resilient, and auditable.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy financial platform components.
• Deliver secure, reliable, high-performance infrastructure and APIs.
• Partner with infrastructure engineering to minimize operational overhead for deployed production systems.
• Develop thoroughly tested code and conduct quality assurance alongside the QA team.
• Learn and apply agile methodologies and test-driven development.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, including incident response outside regular working hours when necessary.

Qualifications

• Experience in Go is mandatory.
• At least 4 years of engineering experience.
• Contributions to backend systems development.
• Experience with payment processing systems.
• A rigorous approach to testing-backed development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional backend languages such as Ruby, Java, and Python.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, cloud-native technology, and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of architectural patterns for large, mission-critical production services.
• Experience in continuous integration/deployment environments.

Location and Work Policy

• Listed locations: New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA.
• The posting is tagged onsite; the stated office policy is four days per week in the office with Fridays from home for employees near an office.
• Seattle-based employees must onboard in person at the San Francisco headquarters and undertake occasional business travel.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $133,000–$184,000 USD. Actual base salary may be higher depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
• Full-time employees may be eligible for bonuses, competitive equity, and benefits.
• Benefits include comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing support; backup child, elder, and pet care; subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees; generous vacation and company-wide paid days off; community service time; an annual wellness stipend; paid parental leave of up to 22 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents; and family planning reimbursement.

Application Accommodations

Applicants needing accommodations during the application process may contact accommodations@chime.com.