Description
Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the Cards engineering teams within the Spending, Saving & Investing (SSI) organization.
In this role, you will:
- 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
- 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
We offer:
- $199,000-$275,000 USD base salary
- Competitive equity and benefits
- 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