Senior Director of Engineering, Financial Platform

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About the role

Chime is looking for a senior engineering leader to help manage and guide our Financial Platform Engineering group, this includes our: core banking capabilities, card payment processing and System of Record. Our mission is to empower the development of a member-obsessed Chime experience by decoupling it from the complexity of operating the flow of funds through consistent abstractions and data. These are enabled by platform components your team will build and own, as well as through robust integrations with our financial services partners.

This job cannot be performed in the state of Colorado.

In this role, you can expect to

  • Build and manage multiple engineering teams across multiple domains, provide technical leadership, set vision and long-term strategy for the engineering roadmap.
  • Deliver highly scalable systems through growing the capabilities of the Financial Platform engineering group through hiring, coaching, nurturing, mentoring, and building a happy healthy culture. 
  • Partner closely with Engineering Product Management to produce a Platform as a Product with best in class developer experience, APIs and Data Products.
  • Solve critical problems while being connected to the technology and architecture. Work with your technology leaders to make technology recommendations to the VP of Engineering and CTO.
  • Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement. Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set expectations with team and individuals.
  • Work closely with our engineering leaders to proactively identify bottlenecks in our existing software infrastructure and guide the team through a path forward to improve and scale it. Ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.
  • Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a senior member of Chime’s engineering leadership team.

To thrive in this role, you have

  • Experience as a software engineer and an effective people manager including experience managing managers and managers of managers.
  • Interest in pushing the envelope to explore new technologies and architectures that can have a large return on investment.
  • An appetite for learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work.
  • A desire to make a huge difference at a growing start-up.
  • The ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals.
  • Comfort guiding teams using our technology stack from high performance runtimes (GoLang), streaming data, polyglot persistence, all leveraging Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) and Cloud-Native technology.
  • Strong operational excellence mindset (Availability, Quality, Performance, Scale) with data-driven approach to holding a high bar.
  • Platform-oriented engineering leadership with experience handling highly available systems.

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances. 

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What we offer

  • 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
  • ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
  • 📝  Quarterly stipend to spruce up your home office 
  • 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days 
  • 🖥  Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, 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 create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice. 

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Location

San Francisco, CA 94108

What are Chime Perks + Benefits

Chime Benefits Overview

Our benefits philosophy is guided by supporting Chimers’ wellbeing in four key areas - physical, emotional, financial, and social. This encompasses everything from physical and mental health services for you and your family to a matching 401k plan with access to financial advisors and legal advice. We team up to offer inclusive events where Chimers can connect and grow, thoughtfully choose food vendors and office accommodations (including a flexible work model), and schedule company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days that give all Chimers at least one extra paid day off each month. We continuously add and enhance these benefits year-round.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Chimers volunteer their time, talent, and energy to support causes they care about using our volunteer portal. Activities are also organized through our Chimer Resource Group Program.
Partners with nonprofits
Chime supports nonprofits year-round, focusing on financial literacy, economic empowerment, social justice, and disaster relief. Chimer Resource Groups also partner with nonprofits that matter to them
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Chime provides employees with a flexible work schedule that includes Flexible start and end times.
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
We partner with ReadySet for company-wide equity training, with a focus on allyship and anti-racism.
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
CRGs (Chimer Resource Groups) include AfroChime, PacifiChime, Chimigos, ChimeHers, Chimmigrants, OutChime, and DiversiChime. Chimers are compensated for their work as leads of these CRGs!
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Recruiting team members and hiring managers complete training on inclusive hiring practices with ModelExpand.
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Chime employees can contribute annually to their FSA.
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Join Chimers in a daily plank challenge! Chimers also ride together on Peloton and have Slack channels to coordinate rides and other workouts.
Mental health benefits
Chime is partnering with ModernHealth to provide Chimers with mental and behavioral health resources.
Transgender health care benefits
Wellness days
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 16 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Chime also provides 16 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Chime offers both adoption and fertility assistance through Maven, reimbursing Chimers up to $10k each year.
Restricted work hours
Almost every month, Chime provides Chimers with a day off to take care of themselves.
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Home-office stipend for remote employees
$500 when you initially start with Chime, and $250 per quarter after.
Meditation space
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Personal development training
Virtual coaching services

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