Engineering Manager, Credit Risk Platform

About the role Chime is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building and operating our underwriting/credit risk platform. This platform provides the foundational services, workflows, and integrations that enable real-time and batch credit decisioning across Chime’s products. In this role, you’ll focus on leading a team that owns critical platform capabilities—ensuring they are reliable, scalable, well-governed, and easy for downstream teams to build on. You’ll partner closely with Product, Data Science, Risk, and Compliance to ensure the platform supports evolving underwriting strategies while maintaining high standards for correctness and trust. This job cannot be performed in the state of Colorado. The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $199,000 and up to $275,000. 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 Lead a single engineering team responsible for core underwriting and credit risk platform services used by multiple downstream product and data consumers. Partner with Product, Data Science, Risk, and Compliance to translate underwriting strategy and policy requirements into clear platform capabilities and delivery plans. Own team execution and delivery, including planning, prioritization, roadmap sequencing, and dependency management. Guide architectural and technical decisions to ensure the platform meets expectations for correctness, reliability, scalability, observability, security, and auditability. Establish and reinforce best practices for platform design, documentation, versioning, and operational readiness. Manage and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, and career development. Build a strong culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, particularly for systems with high business and regulatory impact. Support hiring and onboarding as the team grows, ensuring a high bar for both technical excellence and values alignment. Partner with peer engineering managers to improve cross-team collaboration and platform adoption. To thrive in this role, you have Will have used platform or infrastructure-oriented systems to build shared services that support complex business logic or decisioning at scale. Will have used service-oriented or distributed architectures to build reliable, well-defined APIs and asynchronous workflows consumed by multiple teams. Will have used cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) to operate systems involving data processing, high availability, and operational monitoring. Have experience leading teams responsible for foundational or enabling platforms, rather than end-user-facing features. Have experience partnering closely with Product, Data, Risk, or Compliance stakeholders in highly constrained or regulated domains. Have prior experience as a software engineer, with strong judgment around technical tradeoffs and long-term platform health. Have 1–3+ years of people management experience, with demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and retain engineers. Are comfortable operating in domains where correctness, data integrity, and trust are as important as delivery speed. Model a leadership style grounded in clarity, accountability, and sound decision-making. #LI-SB1 #LI-Hybrid 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 work to help millions achieve their financial potential. Because if we don't—who will? *Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC. What we offer for our full-time, regular employees 🏢 Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.** 💻 In-office perks including backup child, elder, and/or pet care, plus a subsidized commuter benefit to support your regular commute** 💰 Competitive salary based on experience** ✨ 401k match** plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus company-wide paid days off** 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses 👶 Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents 👪 Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more. 🎉 In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers—think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!** 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress** **Perks also available to Chime Interns. We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: benefits@chime.com. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.