Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the Spending, Saving & Investing (SSI) engineering teams.

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

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

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

Tech Lead Manager, Spending, Savings, & Investing

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