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Chime

Runs a mobile banking app with no monthly fees

Tech Lead Manager - Lending

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have direct experience in lending, payments, or other regulated financial or transactional systems.
  • Have managed engineers directly with full people-management ownership, including one-on-ones, career coaching, performance feedback, promotion decisions, and hiring, for a small team while remaining hands-on technically.
  • Use artificial intelligence coding tools and workflows as a core part of building and leading, with a track record of introducing AI-driven practices that measurably improved a team's velocity.
  • Be able to resolve technical disagreements and make speed-versus-durability decisions under delivery pressure, while partnering closely with Product and Design on scope, dependencies, and quarterly planning.
  • Have a bias toward ownership and action over process and be comfortable being accountable for both what ships and how the team is doing.
  • Maintain a high quality bar through design and code review rather than delegating it entirely.

Responsibilities

  • Author and ship scoped, incremental features hands-on.
  • Own the squad's technical direction, architecture, and code quality by leading technical design discussions, code reviews, and technical planning, with support from the team and Tech Leads.
  • Identify technical debt and advocate for sustainable engineering practices as an active, ongoing codebase contributor.
  • Provide full people management for 3–5 direct reports, including one-on-ones, career coaching, performance feedback, and promotion decisions.
  • Drive hiring and staffing for the squad, build an inclusive, high-performing team, and own its health and engagement, with support from the Director of the area.
  • Mentor product engineers on technical and product growth, modeling ownership and craft.
  • Build a path for engineers on the squad toward Staff Engineer or a future Tech Lead Manager role.
  • Partner with Product and Design on sprint scope and delivery commitments, surfacing technical dependencies and capacity needs into quarterly planning.

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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