# Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

**Company**: Chime
**Location**: Chicago, IL
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $223,000-$373,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Chime is looking for Senior Staff and Staff Engineers to lead its high-impact Trust and Safety group.

The Trust and Safety organisation is tasked with fueling sustainable growth, protecting members, and reducing fraud losses and operational costs.

In this role, you can expect to:

- Work with engineering and product leadership to build cross-functional vision

- Design and evolve new and existing capabilities

- Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs

- Identify and help resolve bottlenecks in software development process and infrastructure

- Write and guide engineers to produce elegant, scalable code, with an owner's mindset

- Serve as a mentor, leading others in designing elegant code and architecture that scales to meet Chime's growing needs

- As needed, play the role of Team Lead during the course of a project

- Ensure that technical decisions support quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals

- Contribute to organisation-level discovery, vetting, and decision-making on critical architecture and technology

To thrive in this role, you have:

- 12+ years of experience in software engineering

- Previously built and evolved high-scale back-end solutions

- Passion and previous experience in building end-to-end member-facing features and systems

- Strong competency in distributed systems, scalable and extensible platforms, high availability design

- Experience with leading and empowering multiple teams

- Language and technology stack-agnostic mindset

- Ability to work in agile setting

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience is $223,000-$373,000 USD. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits.

Chime offers benefits that support work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care, subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees, comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits, generous vacation policy, and company-wide paid days off.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- distributed systems
- scalable platforms
- high availability design
- leadership

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