Chime Financial, Inc
Tech Lead Manager, Spending, Savings, & Investing
San Francisco, CA, USA ยท Mid ยท Full-time
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About the role
- We focus on driving active spend and usage, increasing reliability and availability, and delivering seamless, trusted experiences across cards, credit, money movement, saving and investing, deals, and transaction intelligence.
- They stay in the code, authoring and shipping features alongside their team.
- Write and ship code alongside your team, authoring pull requests that land in production
Responsibilities
- Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the Spending, Saving & Investing (SSI) engineering teams.
- TLMs at Chime manage a team of 4-5 engineers: Setting the hiring bar, coaching and developing talent, and driving all formal people management activities.
- They own execution and delivery for the squad.
- Manage and develop a squad of 4-5 engineers: Hiring, 1:1s, career coaching, managing for performance
- Use AI coding agents and tooling to raise both your own leverage and your squad's, and establish the practices that make that durable for the team
- Partner with Product and Design on scope, prioritization, and quarterly planning, surfacing technical dependencies and capacity needs early
- Act as the squad's cross-functional point of contact for its technical capabilities and dependency coordination, and carry the "what should we build" conversation if/when a PM isn't dedicated to your squad
- Build growth paths for the engineers on your squad towards the higher IC levels or a future TLM role
Requirements
- 2+ years in people management responsibilities.
- You are writing code today and want a role where that continues.
- A track record of using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor to accelerate real delivery, and of getting a team to adopt them with measurable impact on output
- Experience supporting coaching members of your team around project execution, skill development, and career progression.
Compensation
- Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience.
Benefits
- ๐ป Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- โจ Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
- ๐ Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- ๐ซ 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- ๐ Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- ๐ถ Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- ๐ช Access to family planning reimbursement
- Our work empowers members to manage their money with confidence, spend smarter, and improve their long-term financial health.
- Own delivery for your squad end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service SLAs and operational health
Company info
- Wage Notice $199,000 - $275,000 USD A little about us At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress.
- From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life.
- Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.
- Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to explore new ways we can deliver amazement to our customers.
- Whether you're coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you'll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
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