Senior Software Engineer, Foundation - Financial Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Foundation - Financial Platform

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us in building the new financial platform for Chime. This platform will power the most important financial activities that millions of Chime members leverage every day.

In this role, your main responsibility will be to collaborate with various teams at Chime to assess and address potential failure scenarios. You will work towards implementing essential technology foundations to enhance the resilience of our services. Additionally, you will be instrumental in developing a robust event streaming infrastructure that enables the Financial Platform to effectively process a large volume of events. Last but not least, you will also play a key role in implementing important security features while collaborating with the product security team.

You will ensure that we build the highest levels of trust with our members by making our platform lightning fast, available, secure, and auditable. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a high‑visibility team that will be pivotal to the future of Chime.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $157,590 and up to $218,900. Full‑time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Deliver complex projects using Go
• Collaborate with other teams to design, develop, test, and deploy tools, libraries, and services to solve cross‑cutting problems
• Enable fellow engineers to develop faster and more efficiently
• Lead best practices to promote the culture of engineering excellence
• Deliver secure, reliable, and high‑performance infrastructure and APIs
• Work with our infrastructure engineering team to minimize the operational overhead of production systems we deploy

To thrive in this role, you have

A little about us

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession : our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out‑hustle and out‑execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.

Because if we don't—who will?

What we offer for our full‑time, regular employees

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.

Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact : benefits@chime.com.

Chime is committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive work environment for all candidates. We ask that you voluntarily complete the demographic survey as a part of our application process. Your responses will be reported in aggregate only and will not impact your candidacy; they are maintained confidentially and stored separately from your application.

We will retain this information for 18 months from your application date, after which it will be anonymized and stored only in that form. Once anonymized, neither we nor Greenhouse can determine the individual to whom it once belonged.

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