Director EngineeringNew

The opportunity

Chime is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our AI & App Experience (AAX) organization — the team building the next generation of the Chime member experience. AAX owns Jade, Chime’s AI-powered financial assistant, our AI platform infrastructure as well as the core app experiences and shared design system.

What you'll do

  • In partnership with our product team you will own the multi-quarter strategy: for AAX engineering, translating company and product priorities into our roadmap plans across consumer facing AI experiences, AI Platform, App Journey, and Design Systems.

  • Build, lead, and hire a high-caliber leadership bench of highly technical: leaders/IC’s as well as building a team culture that exemplifies a builder mindset.

  • Partners with your team to set technical direction for the org, driving: architectural alignment across our consumer facing AI experiences, AI Platform, App Journey, and Design System.

  • You will continue to drive our AI-native engineering culture: setting the bar for how LLM-powered features get shipped safely at scale.

  • Own engineering’s strategic role in product direction, partnering with: Product, Design, Data Science, and Risk leadership to shape roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and integrate platform and member value into long-range plans

  • Represent AAX and engineering more broadly in cross-functional and executive: forums, connecting the org’s work to company-wide strategy and outcomes

What they're looking for

  • Cultivate a high-performing culture across the org, modeling Chime’s values: and ensuring strong talent, performance, and career development practices on every team
  • Ensure the org maintains strong operational practices: on-call, monitoring, and incident response — for every service/experience the team owns
  • Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of Chime’s engineering leadership team
  • + years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing: managers or leading multi-team engineering organizations