Engineering Manager

About the position

Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the technology teams responsible for powering our bank-account features, mobile applications, platforms, service architecture, and third-party integrations. This team is responsible for major components of new feature development and the scalability of Chime's infrastructure as we accelerate our growth.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with our engineering leaders to ensure engineering efficiency and guide the team through a path forward to improve and scale delivery.
• Ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.
• Design, develop, test, and scale new and existing consumer product features.
• Build, lead and hire a high-calibre team of software engineers to solve these problems while being hands on.
• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement.
• Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set expectations with team and individuals.
• Establish team objectives in alignment with business goals.
• Work very closely with the Product Managers to launch solutions for the users.
• Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of Chime's engineering leadership team.

Requirements

• Experience with similar tech: Ruby, React Native, Distributed Systems, AWS services (data, compute) and Service Oriented Architectures.
• Worked as a software engineer and have a deep empathy towards engineering happiness.
• 2+ years in a people management responsibilities.
• Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to explore new ways we can deliver amazement to our customers.
• 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.

Benefits

• A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location.
• Hybrid work perks like backup child, elder and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit.
• Competitive salary based on experience.
• 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus 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 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
• In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers.
• A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech.