Chime
Software Engineer, Trust & Safety
$117K–$184K
Chicago, IL, USA +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years developing software in a production environment at scale.
About the job
Provides technical leadership and builds reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs for Chime’s Trust & Safety platform to protect members and improve their experience.
What you'll do
- Lead projects end-to-end, including technical direction, system architecture, mentoring, and API implementation.
- Design, develop, test, refactor, and scale backend features and resilient APIs with mobile and cross-functional teams.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and engineering standards; participate in on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years developing software in a production environment at scale.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks.
- Experience with transactional databases and caching systems.
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
Nice to have
- Start-up experience.
Pay
$117,000 — $184,000 USD base salary
Tools
Ruby on Rails
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