Senior Software Engineer, Financial Platform (Resilience Engineering and Data Infrastructure)

$218,900 - $218,900/Yr

Chime - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

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About the position

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us in building the new financial platform for Chime. This platform will power the most important financial activities that millions of Chime members leverage every day. In this role, your main responsibility will be to collaborate with various teams at Chime to assess and address potential failure scenarios. You will work towards implementing essential technology foundations to enhance the resilience of our services. Additionally, you will be instrumental in developing a robust event streaming infrastructure that enables the Financial Platform to effectively process a large volume of events. Last but not least, you will also play a key role in implementing important security features while collaborating with the product security team. You will ensure that we build the highest levels of trust with our members by making our platform lightning fast, available, secure, and auditable. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a high-visibility team that will be pivotal to the future of Chime. In this role, you can expect to deliver complex projects using Go, collaborate with other teams to design, develop, test, and deploy tools, libraries, and services to solve cross-cutting problems, enable fellow engineers to develop faster and more efficiently, lead best practices to promote the culture of engineering excellence, and deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs. You will also work with our infrastructure engineering team to minimize the operational overhead of production systems we deploy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex projects using Go
• Collaborate with other teams to design, develop, test, and deploy tools, libraries, and services to solve cross-cutting problems
• Enable fellow engineers to develop faster and more efficiently
• Lead best practices to promote the culture of engineering excellence
• Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs
• Work with our infrastructure engineering team to minimize the operational overhead of production systems we deploy

Requirements

• Hold 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience in Go (additional backend languages such as Ruby, Java and Python is preferred)
• Experience with AWS (or other cloud platforms) especially with Kinesis, DynamoDB, and Elastic Kubernetes Service
• A strong curiosity about how systems work and a desire to learn
• Designed, developed, and supported large-scale distributed systems
• Experience in observability and monitoring of production systems
• A deep understanding of architectural patterns for large, mission-critical production services
• Comfort with solving complex, poorly defined problems and thriving in an iterative, problem-solving environment
• A rigorous approach to testing code and experience in continuous integration/deployment environments

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 UrbanSitter and Kinside for 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 Take Care of Yourself Days
• 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
• Mental health support with therapy and coaching through Modern Health
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and an additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with up to $10k in 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 and help millions unlock financial progress