Staff Engineer, Growth

About The Role

Chime serves millions of members on a mission to help them unlock financial progress. Growth Engineering builds the product surfaces and systems that turn that mission into measurable outcomes for members — running fast, data-informed experiments to acquire, activate, and deepen member relationships at scale. This role sits on our Early Stage Experience area, focused on the beginning of the member journey — the first experiences that turn new sign-ups into engaged, active members. It's high-volume, high-stakes work where small improvements compound, and the systems behind it have to be both quick to experiment on and dependable at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of high-impact, member-facing systems across the Growth stack
• Set the technical vision for high-traffic systems with a scalable, forward-looking approach that meets Chime's reliability and latency standards
• Drive experimentation strategy and execution by building the systems and habits to test, learn, and iterate quickly — without sacrificing durability
• Identify and solve systemic challenges in performance, availability, and conversion-critical reliability across the Growth stack
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and Data to shape product direction and ensure technical feasibility and excellence
• Mentor senior engineers, elevate engineering practices, and drive consistency in quality, architecture, and code craftsmanship across teams
• Represent Chime externally through recruiting, open source, technical talks, or community engagement

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Deep understanding of system design, service boundaries, and product-engineering tradeoffs, especially in high-traffic consumer systems
• Track record of driving measurable impact on business and engineering goals — ideally in growth, conversion, activation, or other consumer product problems
• Experience with experimentation: test design, instrumentation, analysis, and iterating on results
• Ability to influence technical and product direction across teams and orgs, and to lead through influence rather than authority
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced, product-focused environment (Fintech experience is a plus)

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with AI and LLMs to improve productivity and personalize member experience

Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Experience with high-traffic, consumer-facing systems
• Expertise in system design, service boundaries, and product-engineering tradeoffs
• Experience with experimentation and iterative development
• Ability to influence and drive technical and product direction
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

• Base salary begins at $223,000.00 and up to $308,000.00, depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience
• Full-time employees are eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits
• In-office perks including backup child, elder, and/or pet care, plus a subsidized commuter benefit
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days
• Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more
• In-person and virtual events to connect with fellow Chimers

Pay

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $223,000.00 and up to $308,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.

Schedule

In this role, you can expect to Lead the design and implementation of high-impact, member-facing systems across the Growth stack, Set the technical vision for high-traffic systems with a scalable, forward-looking approach that meets Chime's reliability and latency standards, Drive experimentation strategy and execution by building the systems and habits to test, learn, and iterate quickly — without sacrificing durability, Identify and solve systemic challenges in performance, availability, and conversion-critical reliability across the Growth stack, Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and Data to shape product direction and ensure technical feasibility and excellence, Mentor senior engineers, elevate engineering practices, and drive consistency in quality, architecture, and code craftsmanship across teams, Represent Chime externally through recruiting, open source, technical talks, or community engagement.