Chime Financial, Inc
Tech Lead Manager, Platform
San Francisco, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$2,282 more — $201,282 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $201,282 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer Occupations, All Other" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Your team's mission is continuous, safe, reliable, and efficient integration and delivery of features.
- Under Chime's Builder Operating Model, the TLM is a single accountable owner at the team level.
- You're expected to use AI coding agents and workflows to keep planning, operations, and delivery overhead low so you can stay in the code and operate the team.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship, hands-on. Author and review PRs that land in production. Own the team's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar; partner with senior ICs and lead technical design discussions and technical planning.
- Lead and grow the team.
- You own both delivery and people for a small team, and you stay hands-on in the codebase.
- You'll lead a team of 4 engineers, own the roadmap for a high-leverage platform surface, and be directly accountable for the reliability of the pipelines and release systems in the critical path of every Chime team.
- Build and ship, hands-on. Author and review PRs that land in production. Own the team's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar
- Own full people management for the team: 1:1s, career coaching, performance feedback, promotion decisions, and hiring.
- Own cross-functional coordination.
- Coordinate inbound requests and outbound dependencies, partner with client engineering teams and sibling platform teams (Release Enablement, Developer Foundations) on scope and delivery commitments, and tie-break technical decisions.
- A track record of delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems: continuous integration, build pipelines, artifact management, or progressive delivery.
- You measure success by the productivity and reliability experienced by the engineers who build on your platform.
Requirements
- To thrive in this role, you have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years leading or managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development, with the appetite and ability to stay hands-on in the codebase.
- Hands-on experience with CI systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or comparable), build pipelines, and artifact management in production (must-have).
- Experience with progressive and safe delivery: canaries, release gating, feature flagging, and rollback strategies.
- Strong development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or comparable languages.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitOps-based deployment in production.
- Experience with code intelligence and quality tooling (Sourcegraph, Artifactory, code-quality and linting systems).
Compensation
- Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience.
Benefits
- 💻 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
- Build an inclusive, high-trust team and own its health and engagement.
Company info
- Own the CI/CD platform. Set direction and delivery for the build and integration systems (GitHub,
- Be accountable for safe delivery at scale. Own the release-safety toolkit (Release Guard, canaries and progressive delivery, feature flagging with
- Balance the platform-team tension. Weigh new capabilities against keep-the-lights-on work, security remediation, and dependency upgrades, and make those trade-offs legible to engineers, cross-functional partners, and leadership.
- Champion AI-driven velocity. Use AI coding agents and tooling to scale yourself and your team across planning, coding, and ops/triage, and introduce workflows that measurably improve team velocity.
- Own cross-functional coordination. Serve as the XFN point of contact for your platform's capabilities. Coordinate inbound requests and outbound dependencies, partner with client engineering teams and sibling platform teams (Release Enablement, Developer Foundations) on scope and delivery commitments, and tie-break technical decisions.
- Partner across the Platform Org. Work closely with product engineering teams, security, Core Infrastructure, and other Engineering Services leaders on shared roadmaps, dependencies, and other initiatives.
- A track record of delivering
- 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.