Senior Software Engineer
Chime- Base salary
- $187k–$259k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - New York, NY or San Francisco, CA, 4 days/week in office Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to help build Jade, Chime's AI-powered financial assistant. You'll work across the full breadth of bringing an AI product to life — from designing new agent capabilities and conversation experiences to building eval frameworks, observability, and guardrail systems. You'll build member-facing capabilities, internal tools, dashboards, and backend services for model routing, prompt management, agent orchestration, and evaluation pipelines.
In this role, you can expect to
- Design, build, and scale new capabilities for Jade
- Develop agent architectures, prompt strategies, and orchestration patterns
- Build eval frameworks, observability, and guardrail systems
- Partner cross-functionally to deliver secure, scalable solutions
- Improve system reliability through performance tuning and architectural enhancements
- Contribute to technical design and maintain high standards through code reviews and mentorship
To thrive in this role, you have
- 5+ years of backend software development experience in production environments
- Proficiency with AI tooling and AI native development
- Proficiency with Python or comparable frameworks
- Experience with transactional databases (e.g., Postgres) and caching systems (e.g., Redis)
- Familiarity with architectural patterns in high-scale systems
- A strong focus on writing maintainable, well-tested code
Bonus
Experience with agent development, fintech, or startup environments
Compensation & benefits
Base salary offered for this role and level of experience: $187,000—$259,000 USD. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. Benefits include comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits; generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off; annual wellness stipend; up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents; access to family planning reimbursement; backup child, elder, and pet care; and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
Work policy
Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
Application instructions
Apply via the Greenhouse link. For accommodation requests, contact accommodations@chime.com.
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