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Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Chicago OfficeFull-time$223k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Lead the vision for Chime's Trust and Safety group, providing technical and architectural guidance to build scalable frameworks that protect members and reduce fraud.

Role type

Senior Staff / Staff Software Engineer (Trust & Safety)

Builds

Scalable, extensible frameworks and high-performance infrastructure/APIs for risk experiences across member checkpoints.

Domain

FinTech / Trust & Safety / Distributed Systems

Required skills

High-scale back-end solutions, distributed systems, scalable platform design, high availability design, leading multiple teams, agile methodology

Preferred skills

Language and technology stack-agnostic mindset

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Work with engineering and product leadership to build cross-functional vision, Design and evolve new and existing capabilities, Deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure and APIs, Identify and help resolve bottlenecks in software development process, Write and guide engineers to produce elegant, scalable code, Serve as a mentor leading others in designing elegant code and architecture

Seniority

Senior Staff / Staff, hands-on IC with leadership