Backend Engineer (Chicago)

Chime Financial, Inc•Chicago, IL

2h•$133,000 - $166,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Chime is looking for engineers to join our multifaceted and fast growing team, where you will work on APIs that power our member facing products and iterate on our banking platform. You will own projects from end-to-end by influencing architecture, implementing APIs and maintaining the ongoing health of the code. The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $133,000 and up to $166,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience. In this role, you can expect to Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features Work with the mobile team to design and build strong, resilient APIs that propel our mobile app Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand member struggles and come up with creative solutions Proactively find opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation. Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary.

Requirements

3+ years developing software in a production environment at scale
Experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks
Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems
Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
An appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code
A desire to learn and dive into the deepest levels of how things work

Nice To Haves

Start-up experience as an added plus

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
Work with the mobile team to design and build strong, resilient APIs that propel our mobile app
Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand member struggles and come up with creative solutions
Proactively find opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards
Participate in on-call rotation, which may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary.

Benefits

Bonus
Competitive equity package
Backup child, elder, and/or pet care
Subsidized commuter benefit
401k match
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
Generous vacation policy
Company-wide Chime Days
Company-wide paid days off
1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
Annual wellness stipend
Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents
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