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Chime

Runs a mobile banking app with no monthly fees

Tech Lead Manager - Decision Platform

Engineering LeadershipUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeChicago, IL, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience in people-management responsibilities.
  • Current hands-on coding ability and a desire to continue coding in the role.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor to accelerate delivery and helping a team adopt them with measurable impact on output.
  • Experience supporting team members through coaching around project execution, skill development, and career progression.
  • Experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and Analytics.
  • Experience with similar technologies, including Ruby, React Native, distributed systems, AWS data and compute services, and service-oriented architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a squad of 4–5 engineers through hiring, one-on-ones, career coaching, and performance management.
  • Own squad delivery end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service-level agreements and operational health.
  • Write and ship code alongside the team, authoring pull requests that land in production.
  • Be accountable for the squad’s technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either through a squad tech lead or by taking on the tech lead role.
  • Use AI coding agents and tooling to improve individual and squad leverage, and establish durable team practices for their use.
  • 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 coordinate dependencies; lead discussions about what to build when a dedicated Product Manager is absent.
  • Identify technical debt, advocate for sustainable engineering, and remain an active codebase contributor.
  • Ensure quality, performance, and operational health, including a healthy on-call and incident-response culture.
  • Build growth paths for squad engineers toward higher individual-contributor levels or a future Tech Lead Manager role.
  • Contribute to broader Trust & Safety and Chime engineering initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team.

Desired Qualifications

  • An interest in exploring new approaches to technology, people, and organizational effectiveness to improve customer outcomes.
  • A fascination with helping teams and people thrive.
  • Enjoyment of learning and investigating how systems work in depth.
  • The ability to motivate a team to deliver against aggressive schedules and goals.

About the Company

Chime

Runs a mobile banking app with no monthly fees

Chime runs a mobile banking app for everyday Americans, with accounts held at federally insured banks and no monthly or overdraft fees. It made its name by releasing direct-deposit paychecks up to two days early, and in 2019 it introduced SpotMe, which covers small overdrafts without a fee. Members spend with a Visa debit card or the Chime Card, a credit card backed by their own deposits that builds credit, and get part of their pay before payday through MyPay. Chime makes most of its money from the swipe fees merchants pay when members use its cards, plus charges and interest on instant transfers, pay advances, and small loans. Chime was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2012

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