# Director Engineering

**Company:** [Chime](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chime)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $269k – $373k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AI, LLMs, React Native, Python, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Distributed Systems, Data Science, risk and compliance, on-call operations, Monitoring, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Leads the AI and app experience engineering organization, setting multi-quarter strategy, technical direction, and operational standards while developing engineering leaders. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, 5+ years leading managers or multiple teams, and experience scaling AI/LLM-powered consumer products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the multi-quarter strategy for AAX engineering, translating company and product priorities into roadmap plans across consumer-facing AI experiences, AI Platform, App Journey, and Design Systems.
- Build, lead, and hire a high-caliber leadership bench of technical leaders and senior individual contributors.
- Establish technical direction and architectural alignment across consumer-facing AI experiences, AI Platform, App Journey, and Design Systems.
- Drive an AI-native engineering culture and set standards for shipping LLM-powered features safely at scale.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Risk leadership to shape roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and integrate platform and member value into long-range plans.
- Represent the organization in cross-functional and executive forums, connecting engineering work to company strategy and outcomes.
- Cultivate a high-performing culture through talent, performance, career development, and succession practices.
- Ensure strong operational practices, including on-call, monitoring, and incident response, for owned services and experiences.
- Contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing managers or leading multi-team engineering organizations.
- Track record of building and scaling AI/LLM-powered consumer products.
- Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineering leaders and Staff+ individual contributors.
- Strong technical fundamentals across relevant parts of the stack, such as React Native, Python or Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and distributed systems.
- Ability to translate company and product strategy into multi-quarter engineering plans and adapt organizational design as priorities and scale evolve.
- Excellent executive communication skills and ability to connect organizational strategy to business outcomes.
- Experience partnering with Product, Design, Data Science, and Risk/Compliance functions in a regulated or high-trust environment.
- AI-native fluency and experience fostering AI-native practices across teams.
- Ability to motivate teams through aggressive schedules and goals.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: **$269,000.00–$373,000.00**.
- Eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.
- Benefits include backup child, elder, and pet care; subsidized commuter benefits; health, financial, and wellbeing benefits; generous vacation and paid company days; wellness stipend; paid parental leave; and family planning reimbursement.
- In-office policy generally includes four days per week in the office and Fridays from home for employees near an office; a fully remote program is also available.

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