Hands-on Engineering Manager leading a team building consumer deals, cashback, and merchant offers experiences plus the underlying platform at Chime. Player-coach role involving coding, technical direction, cross-functional partnership with Product/Design/Analytics, and people development. Requires 2+ years management experience and strong hands-on coding skills.
199k – 275k/yr
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About the role
Responsibilities
Lead, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team, and grow engineers through their next stage of impact
Stay hands-on: write and ship code on high-leverage projects, and set the technical bar by doing the work alongside your team
Review your team's pull requests and lead design reviews, raising the bar for quality, testing, and maintainability through direct feedback
Own the technical direction for the deals and offers surface, from member-facing discovery and redemption experiences to the platform that powers them
Partner closely with Product, Design, and Analytics to grow deal attach, claim, and redemption, and to turn experiments into durable member value
Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set clear team objectives in alignment with organization and company priorities, and hold a high bar for execution
Drive architecture and technical decisions that keep the deals platform reliable, well-instrumented, and scalable as volume grows
Manage partner and merchant integrations, working across engineering and external vendors to expand offer supply and improve measurement
Ensure quality, performance, and operational health, including a healthy on-call and incident-response culture
Contribute to broader SSI and Chime engineering initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team
Requirements
2+ years of people management experience, including hiring and developing engineers
Current, hands-on coding ability and the desire to stay technical; you are excited to contribute code and review PRs, not just manage
Fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, and a track record of using them to raise your own and your team's leverage
A strong technical foundation and the ability to guide architecture and review technical decisions with your team
Experience shipping consumer product features and running experimentation, with a bias toward iteration and measuring impact
Experience with service-oriented architectures and building or owning backend platforms at scale
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering closely with Product, Design, and Analytics
Deep empathy for engineers and a genuine interest in how to make teams and people thrive
The ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals
Nice-to-Haves
Familiarity with our stack (Ruby on Rails, React Native, AWS, distributed systems)
Experience integrating with third-party partners or vendors
Compensation
Base salary: $199000 - $275000
Eligible for bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits
Skills
Ruby on RailsReact NativeAWSDistributed Systemsai-assisted development toolsClaude CodeCodexCursor
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