Software Engineer, Credit Risk Platform

About the role

Chime Engineering is growing rapidly as we scale to support the financial needs of our members. We are looking for driven engineers to join our Credit Risk Platform team, where you’ll build backend services and internal tools that help Chime manage credit risk and losses across all of our credit products, including Loans, MyPay, SpotMe, and a growing pipeline of new credit products in development.

This team is building a shared risk platform that expands with every new product we launch. A key part of the mission is being able to onboard new credit products as a platform capability, not a reinvention of decisioning, controls, and monitoring each time. You’ll partner closely with Credit Risk, Product, Analytics, and Data Science to help risk experts iterate safely using better tooling, richer data, and clear guardrails. That includes integrating third-party data sources and building systems that are reliable, observable, and auditable, because they sit on the critical path of member experiences and credit outcomes.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $133,000 and up to $184,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and internal tools that support risk strategy across multiple products (e.g., eligibility, limits, exposure tracking, policy enforcement)
• Contribute to reusable platform primitives that make it faster and safer to launch new credit products without duplicating risk decisioning and controls
• Build and improve workflows that enable Credit Risk teams to adjust strategies (rules, thresholds, segmentation) with appropriate guardrails and review processes
• Integrate third-party data sources used in decisioning and monitoring, including implementing data validation, error handling, and resilience to vendor changes
• Add instrumentation, dashboards, and alerts for key risk and loss signals, and participate in on-call/incident response as part of a supportive team rotation
• Collaborate with senior engineers to learn best practices in system design, testing, and operational excellence
• Proactively identify reliability and scalability improvements and drive them to completion with mentorship and feedback

To thrive in this role, you have

• 3+ years developing software in a production environment
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks, building and operating APIs
• Experience working with relational databases and caching systems, and writing safe schema changes and migrations
• Familiarity with distributed systems fundamentals (async processing, idempotency, retries, backfills) and an interest in learning deeper system design
• A strong appreciation for maintainable, well-tested code and a willingness to improve existing systems, not just ship new ones
• Comfort working across teams to clarify requirements, communicate tradeoffs, and deliver incrementally
• Interest in data-driven systems and integrating external/third-party data sources (fintech or risk experience is a plus, not required)

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A little about us

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we w