Senior Software Engineer, Platform at Chime Financial, Inc
San Francisco, CA
$187,000–$259,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining internal platform infrastructure — specifically the systems that handle asynchronous messaging, caching, job processing, and workflow orchestration across engineering teams. The work involves Ruby/Rails libraries, Redis, AWS messaging services, and tools like Temporal, with a secondary focus on shared tooling and AI-assisted development capabilities. Suits engineers experienced with large-scale distributed systems who are comfortable owning cross-cutting platform concerns.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,700–14,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Metro and CBSA fields are left blank per the caller's declaration that this is a fully-remote, national-pool role; the posting itself is tagged #LI-Onsite, which conflicts — the caller's override takes precedence.
Ruby/Rails is stated with 'Strong … experience' under the requirements block and is a clear hard gate. Python and Go are explicitly called 'a bonus' and are marked preferred.
AWS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker all appear together in a single requirements-block sentence ('Familiarity with AWS … and infrastructure tooling like Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker'). 'Familiarity with' is a softening qualifier but the skills sit unambiguously in the hard-requirements section, so they are treated as hard gates.
Redis and Temporal appear only in the role-description narrative ('You'll work on') rather than in the requirements block, so they are marked preferred.
SNS and SQS are listed together as a single AWS messaging capability (SNS/SQS); they are emitted as one skill with the other as an alternative rather than as two separate skills.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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