Chime Financial, Inc
Software Engineer, Communication Platform
San Francisco, CA, USA · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- The Communication Platform team aims to provide a high quality platform to help our members work towards better financial health, while accelerating development velocity within Chime.
- As a small and nimble team, each person has a profound impact on the experience of each of our millions of users.
Responsibilities
- As a foundational member of this team, you would drive key architectural changes to the layer that powers messaging for millions of members.
- Design, develop, test, release, and scale changes to our mobile and backend architecture
- Collaborate effectively with the cross functional team to solve complex problems within the team domain
- Develop thoroughly tested code and conduct quality assurance on all new code
- Work in a team as well as independently to deliver on goals to accelerate development velocity while delivering the best experience to our members
- A strong empathy for the users of the products you create
Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years experience of fullstack development
- To thrive in this role, you have
Nice to have
- Experience working cross functionally and collaborating well with team members
- Understanding of architectural patterns of large production services built for scale.
- Ability to safely make changes without disrupting and introducing regressions to millions of users.
- 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress
Compensation
- Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience.
- For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay.
- The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
Benefits
- A passion for learning and sharing knowledge alongside teammates, with self-motivation and keen attention to detail
- 💻 Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- ✨ Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- 👶 Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- 👪 Access to family planning reimbursement
- Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits.
Company info
- Wage Notice $133,000 - $184,000 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.
- We created Chime-a financial technology company, not a bank*-on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free.
- We're looking for a strong engineer who has a passion for building scalable systems and who can help drive and innovate on our communication platform at Chime!
- Whether you're coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you'll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
This listing is sourced directly from Chime Financial, Inc's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.