Engineering Manager, Chime
AI & App Experience
$199-275k
4+ days a week in office
Mobile banking for the everyday person
Be an early applicant
Mobile banking for the everyday person
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$199-275k
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make financial peace of mind a reality for millions of everyday people.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as a software engineer, with depth in relevant tech (e.g., Python, Ruby, React Native, distributed systems, AWS services, and service-oriented architectures) and a deep empathy toward engineering happiness
- 2+ years of people management experience, including coaching engineers on project execution, skill development, and career progression
- AI-native fluency: you build with LLMs and AI tooling yourself, and you actively foster that practice across your team rather than treating it as someone else's job
- Familiarity with the challenges of shipping LLM-powered products (agents, evals, prompt strategies, or guardrails), or a strong drive to come up to speed quickly
- Experience ensuring technical decisions support quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
- Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to find new ways to deliver for our members
- A fascination with how to make teams and people thrive, and the ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals
- Enjoyment in learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work
What the job involves
- Chime is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of the teams building Jade, our AI-powered financial assistant, within the AI & App Experience (AAX) organization
- AAX is building the next generation of the Chime member experience, and Jade sits at the center of it: helping millions of members manage their spending, stay on top of subscriptions, and reach their financial goals through conversation that's natural, reliable, and trustworthy
- You'll lead and grow a team of engineers who design, build, and ship member-facing AI capabilities, while staying close enough to the technology to guide hard architectural and product decisions
- This is an AI-first team, and we're looking for a leader who builds with AI themselves and knows how to foster that practice across a team: setting the bar for how LLM-powered features get shipped safely at scale, and shaping how the team works at the frontier of what AI tooling makes possible
- Build, lead, and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers building Jade, while staying hands-on enough to guide technical direction
- Ensure technical decisions support our bar for quality, reliability, and safety, and map to team, organization, and company-level priorities
- Set team objectives in alignment with business goals, establish a sense of urgency and direction, and set clear expectations with the team and individuals
- Foster an AI-native engineering culture: champion AI-assisted development, set the quality gates that keep AI-generated output production-ready, and help the team turn one-off AI workflows into systems the whole team reuses
- Guide the team in shipping LLM-powered capabilities, from agent experiences and evals to the guardrails and observability that keep Jade reliable at the scale of millions of members
- Work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Risk to launch precise, member-first solutions
- Coach and grow engineers around project execution, skill development, and career progression
- Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement, where the team takes smart risks
- Ensure the team maintains strong on-call, monitoring, and incident-response practices for the systems it owns
- Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of Chime's engineering leadership community
Our take
Chime is part of the growing realm of fintech banks and providers, emphasising straightforward, cost-effective banking solutions. It cuts the expenses tied to basic bank accounts and provides users with greater autonomy in managing their finances.
In contrast to many traditional banks that levy steep fees and hefty penalties for overdrafts while offering meagre interest rates on savings, Chime addresses a crucial gap in the banking sector. Its primary focus is on catering to individuals with modest savings who seek the convenience of automated digital banking.
With a remarkable ascent in its trajectory, Chime's current valuation stands at $11.6B since its 2025 IPO. However, competition remains fierce, with other neobanks like Ally offering similar features and vying for the same customer base. That being said, Chime's IPO, rare in a financially uncertain period, proves that it has shifted from challenger to major player.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Aug 2021
$750m
SERIES G
Sep 2020
$485m
SERIES F
Total funding: $2.0bn
Company benefits
- Physical: We believe in taking care of your physical health, so as a Chimer you’ll get medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as benefits to support your physical activity, family planning, and all of your little Chimers
- Emotional: We know that staying healthy involves a lot more than doctor’s checkups. We partner with Modern Health to help you navigate your mental health, give monthly Take Care of Yourself Days, and want you to take time off when you need it
- Financial: We want Chimers to save and feel financially supported, so we offer savings plans with competitive matching, as well as access to financial planning and legal assistance so that you can find your financial peace of mind
- Social: We’ll celebrate your milestones together with travel stipends, swag, and high-fives and make sure you’re connected to fellow Chimers through our Chime Resource Groups (CRGs) and company events
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Britt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Chris worked as an Accenture Management Consultant for 4 years before roles at CMGI, Comscore Networks, and Visa. They left their position as an SVP of Corporate Development at Green Dot Corporation to co-found Chime in November 2012.
Ryan King
(Co-Founder)Ryan worked at Plaxo for 8 years, first as Lead Engineer and then working their way up to VP of Engineering & COO. They went on to be CTO & Vice President at Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Centre before co-founding Chime.
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