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ChimeTech Lead Manager, Lending
Chime is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide its Lending division, developing platforms and products that offer members fair credit access, liquidity tools, and financial…
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Chime is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide its Lending division, developing platforms and products that offer members fair credit access, liquidity tools, and financial solutions like SpotMe, MyPay, and Instant Loans. Operating consequential systems that handle real-time money movement, underwriting, reconciliation, and capital markets workflows, this division builds core financial infrastructure. This position suits an engineering leader who wants executive support, real ownership over a new team, and…
Job Description
Chime is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to guide its Lending division, developing platforms and products that offer members fair credit access, liquidity tools, and financial solutions like SpotMe, MyPay, and Instant Loans. Operating consequential systems that handle real-time money movement, underwriting, reconciliation, and capital markets workflows, this division builds core financial infrastructure.
This position suits an engineering leader who wants executive support, real ownership over a new team, and close collaboration with product, design, analytics, and marketing partners. The role combines hands-on coding and technical direction with full people management responsibilities for a small squad.
As a financial technology company focused on helping everyday people achieve financial progress, Chime provides helpful and transparent services. Employees operate in an entrepreneurial culture centered on member impact. This full-time, on-site opportunity requires working four days a week in the office and working from home on Fridays.
Responsibilities
- Write and deploy scoped, incremental features directly as a hands-on contributor
- Lead technical architecture, code quality, planning sessions, and design reviews for the squad
- Identify technical debt and promote sustainable engineering practices through active codebase contributions
- Manage 3 to 5 direct reports, conducting 1:1 meetings, coaching careers, delivering performance feedback, and handling promotions
- Drive hiring, staffing, team health, and engagement in partnership with the area Director
- Mentor product engineers to foster technical and product growth
- Guide squad members toward Staff Engineer or future tech lead manager tracks
- Collaborate with Product and Design teams during quarterly planning and sprint delivery to manage scope, technical dependencies, and capacity
Requirements
- Direct professional background in payments, lending, or regulated financial and transactional systems
- Demonstrated experience managing direct reports on a small engineering team, including hiring, 1:1s, coaching, performance management, and promotions
- Track record of maintaining technical contributions while performing management duties
- Experience utilizing AI coding tools and workflows to boost team velocity
- Ability to resolve technical disagreements and balance speed against durability under delivery pressure
- Experience partnering with product managers and designers on scope, planning, and dependencies
Core Skills
Benefits
- Base salary starting between $199,000.00 and $275,000.00
- Eligibility for a performance bonus and competitive equity package
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- Subsidized commuter benefits and backup care for children, elders, and pets
- Annual wellness stipend
- Paid parental leave of up to 22 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Family planning reimbursement access
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the employment type for this role?
This position is full-time.
What is the work location and remote policy?
The role is on-site, requiring employees to work four days a week in the office and from home on Fridays.
What salary is offered for the Tech Lead Manager position?
The base salary begins at $199,000.00 and goes up to $275,000.00, with the actual amount depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, equity, and benefits.
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