# Tech Lead Manager, Spending, Savings, & Investing **Company**: Chime **Location**: San Francisco, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $199,000-$275,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chime/jobs/8535340002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5a5b49f4-695 ## Description Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the Spending, Saving & Investing (SSI) engineering teams. ## Responsibilities In this role, you can expect to - Manage and develop a squad of 4-5 engineers: Hiring, 1:1s, career coaching, managing for performance - Own delivery for your squad end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service SLAs and operational health - Write and ship code alongside your team, authoring pull requests that land in production - Be accountable for the squad's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either via a tech lead on the squad, or by taking on the tech lead role yourself - 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 - Identify technical debt and advocate for sustainable engineering, staying an active contributor to the codebase - Ensure quality, performance, and operational health, including a healthy on-call and incident-response culture - Build growth paths for the engineers on your squad towards the higher IC levels or a future TLM role - Contribute to broader SSI and Chime engineering initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team ## Requirements To thrive in this role, you have - 2+ years in people management responsibilities - Current, hands-on coding ability and the desire to keep it. 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 - Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to explore new ways we can deliver amazement to our customers - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering closely with Product, Design, and Analytics - A fascination in how to make teams and people thrive - Enjoyment in learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work - The ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals - Experience with similar tech: Ruby, React Native, Distributed Systems, AWS services (data, compute) and Service Oriented Architectures ## Benefits - In-office work policy: four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices - Backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees - Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits - 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 ## Skills ### Required - Ruby - React Native - Distributed Systems - AWS services - Service Oriented Architectures - AI-assisted development tools --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chime/jobs/8535340002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)