About the role

Chime is looking for someone who is curious to learn how security engineering teams work. You’ll assess and reduce risks by building tools and implementing controls that help to keep our member’s data and money safe. You communicate clearly and work to create practical solutions that reduce our security risk. You will gain valuable professional experience working with cutting edge cloud technology and distributed systems alongside engineers with a wealth of experience to share. This is an exciting opportunity to learn while playing a role in a critical initiative at Chime. This role is structured as a 3 month engagement.

We’re a small dedicated team, and we are always thinking of innovative ways to tackle hard security problems. We take on ambitious projects that have a huge impact on our members and build a healthy security culture for our company. As a team we are encouraged to talk about the problems we are solving, the methods, and celebrate our accomplishments in public blogs and at conferences. If this resonates with the way you work, we’d love to hear from you.

This role is structured as a 3 month engagement. The starting hourly rate offered for this role and target level of experience will begin at $29 and up to $42. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Assist with the design, development, testing, and deployment of security tools and features.
• Learn and execute on agile methodologies.
• Work with a cross-functional team and understand how software is developed and maintained at scale.
• Work on UX & UI for a developer-focused product, with your users (engineers) only a slack message away. Translation: you’ll feel a great user feedback loop, and have a clear feeling of when you’re building something valuable.
• Influence leaders and their organizations using data and graphs that display our security posture and help create positive change within the organization.
• Build functionalities that improve the security observability of our internal services, infrastructure, and data.
• Process (potentially with machine learning) our real time stream of security events, and turn that into alerts for our Security Operations Center for further human investigation.
• Write an article about your project on our engineering blog (bonus).

To thrive in this role, you have     

• Must be interest in cloud and infrastructure security
• Eager to evaluate open-source tools
• Familiarity with AWS and Terraform is extremely desirable
• Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Go (golang) experience is a plus

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances. 

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

Perks once Full-Time

• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience

• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• 📝  Quarterly stipend to spruce up your home office 
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days 
• 🖥  Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• 💚  A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with federal, state, and Cook County ordinances. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see theChime Applicant Privacy Notice.