Engineering Manager, Spending

About the role

Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the Banking Products technology teams. Chime’s Banking Products team is on a mission to make Chime the top choice for everyday spending by building innovative, reliable, and member-first financial tools. We focus on driving active spend and usage, increasing reliability and availability, and delivering seamless, trusted experiences across cards, credit, money movement, deals, and transaction intelligence.

Our work empowers members to manage their money with confidence, spend smarter, and improve their long-term financial health.

This job cannot be performed in the state of Colorado.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $176,490 and up to $245,100. 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Experience supporting coaching members of your team around project execution, skill development, and career progression.
• 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.

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At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest…