Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
Chime
Chime Engineering is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop APIs for their banking platform. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a focus on improving system reliability and scalability. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, emphasizing a culture of financial empowerment for members.
Qualification
- 5+ years developing software in a production environment at scale
- Proven experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks
- Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
- An appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code
- Enjoyment in learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work
- Start-up experience as an added plus
Responsibility
- Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
- Work with the mobile team to design and build strong, resilient APIs that power the member facing mobile app
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand member pain points and come up with solutions
- Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
- Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards
