# Senior Software Engineer, Lending

**Company:** [Chime](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chime)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, Backend Systems, APIs, Distributed Systems, Transactional Databases, Asynchronous Processing, Caching, System Design, Observability, Fintech
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Senior backend engineer leading cross-team architecture and delivery of lending systems at Chime. Owns complex initiatives spanning credit, repayments, capital markets, and core financial platforms.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end architecture and delivery of backend systems that connect member-facing lending products with shared platforms such as Credit Risk, Capital Markets, Repayments, servicing, and core financial systems
- Drive complex, cross-team initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, rollout, and iteration
- Own technical problems with real business and member impact, and bring structure, momentum, and clarity when the path is not obvious
- Define and evolve APIs, integration patterns, and data contracts so product teams can move faster without compromising safety, correctness, or reuse
- Design for scale, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence, with strong handling of failures, retries, reconciliation, auditability, and edge cases
- Identify opportunities to turn one-off product needs into reusable platform capabilities that unlock future velocity across Lending
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Risk, Data Science, Analytics, Finance, and Operations to translate ambiguous problems into practical, high-leverage technical solutions
- Influence how product and platform teams work together by clarifying ownership, reducing integration friction, and improving the quality of technical decision-making across boundaries
- Participate in on-call and incident response, and lead efforts to turn production lessons into lasting improvements in systems, tooling, and engineering practices
- Mentor other engineers through design reviews, technical feedback, and hands-on partnership
- Contribute to roadmap and strategy conversations by identifying where platform investments can unlock multiple product outcomes over time

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production software at scale, with a strong track record of owning backend systems end-to-end
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals, ideally with Ruby on Rails or a comparable framework, and experience building APIs and distributed systems in production
- Experience with transactional databases, asynchronous processing, caching, and large-scale application architecture
- Strong system design judgment and the ability to make sound tradeoffs across correctness, scalability, resiliency, speed, and long-term maintainability
- A track record of leading complex projects that span multiple teams, systems, or business workflows
- Experience working in fintech, lending, banking, payments, risk, or other high-integrity domains where correctness, traceability, and operational rigor matter deeply
- A high-ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguity, including the ability to create clarity, drive alignment, and move important work forward without waiting for perfect structure
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and cross-functional teams in a low-ego, effective way
- A product mindset and strong instincts for connecting technical decisions to member experience and business outcomes
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams raise the bar on design quality, testing, operational excellence, and engineering ownership

## Nice to Have
- Experience with lending or credit systems such as underwriting, eligibility, line assignment, limits, repayments, collections, servicing, or decisioning
- Experience with financial platform domains such as capital markets workflows, reconciliations, ledgering, accounting interfaces, partner integrations, or bank integrations
- Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and data-informed systems used to safely evolve decisioning and product strategy over time
- Experience helping product teams adopt shared platform capabilities through strong APIs, abstractions, internal tooling, or platform patterns

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