Chime Engineering Manager at Chime leads a squad of 4-5 engineers in the Spending, Saving & Investing organization, managing delivery and technical direction. The role includes hands-on coding and adoption of AI-assisted development tools.
Responsibilities
Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide one of the Spending, Saving & Investing (SSI) engineering teams. Chime’s SSI org 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, saving and investing, deals, and transaction intelligence. Our work empowers members to manage their money with confidence, spend smarter, and improve their long-term financial health.
We're hiring Tech Lead Managers (TLM) for multiple squads in SSI. TLMs at Chime manage a team of 4-5 engineers: Setting the hiring bar, coaching and developing talent, and driving all formal people management activities. They own execution and delivery for the squad. They stay in the code, authoring and shipping features alongside their team.
Manage and develop a squad of 4-5 engineers: Hiring, 1:1s, career coaching, managing for performance
Own delivery for your squad end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service SLAs and operational health
Write and ship code alongside your team, authoring pull requests that land in production
Be accountable for the squad's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either via a tech lead on the squad, or by taking on the tech lead role yourself.
Use AI coding agents and tooling to raise both your own leverage and your squad's, and establish the practices that make that durable for the team
Partner with Product and Design on scope, prioritization, and quarterly planning, surfacing technical dependencies and capacity needs early
Act as the squad's cross-functional point of contact for its technical capabilities and dependency coordination, and carry the "what should we build" conversation if/when a PM isn't dedicated to your squad
Identify technical debt and advocate for sustainable engineering, staying an active contributor to the codebase
Ensure quality, performance, and operational health, including a healthy on-call and incident-response culture
Build growth paths for the engineers on your squad towards the higher IC levels or a future TLM role
Qualification
Experience with Ruby2+ years in people management
Required
Experience with Ruby, React Native, Distributed Systems, AWS services, and Service Oriented Architectures
Experience as a software engineer with empathy towards engineering happiness
Experience coaching team members on project execution, skill development, and career progression
2+ years in people management
Ability to motivate a team through aggressive schedules and goals
