Remote Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation

Description:

• The Experimentation Platform team at Chime develops a critical tool that empowers Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, Analysts, ML Engineers, and non-technical audiences to design, configure, and analyze experiments.
• The mission is to drive innovation, speed, and quality by empowering teams to run hypothesis-driven, rapid experiments at scale.
• The Staff Software Engineer will help drive technical architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance experimentation quality and velocity.
• This role involves building scalable platforms, leading a team of engineers, and shaping the future of experimentation at Chime.
• The engineer will support cross-functional teams on experiment design, best practices, and culture.
• Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, and deploying components of Chime’s internal experimentation platform at scale, solving scale and usability problems in causal inference, and partnering closely with Data Engineering & DSML to introduce new statistical methodologies.
• The engineer will lead technical direction by mentoring engineers, driving architectural excellence, and ensuring software development best practices and engineering quality.
• The role includes delivering secure, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure, writing thoroughly tested, high-quality code, and participating in an on-call rotation to address platform issues as needed.
• The position follows Agile methodologies and practices Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expertise in Go or other backend languages such as Ruby, Java, or Python is required.
• Hands-on experience with experimentation methodologies such as A/B testing, multivariate testing, and feature flagging is necessary.
• A strong background in data science-related fields, including analytics, statistics, and machine learning, is essential.
• Expertise in distributed systems, large-scale applications, and Big Data architecture is required.
• A rigorous approach to testing and experience with test-driven development is necessary.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, Cloud-Native technologies, and NoSQL databases is required.
• Prior experience working in continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) environments is a bonus.

Benefits:

• The base salary for this role starts at $198,990 and can go up to $281,900, with eligibility for a bonus and competitive equity package.
• Full-time employees enjoy a flexible in-office work policy, with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near an office.
• In-office perks include backup child, elder, and/or pet care, plus a subsidized commuter benefit.
• Employees receive a competitive salary based on experience, a 401k match, and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• A generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, along with bonus paid days off, are provided.
• Employees can take 1% of their time off to support local community organizations of their choice.
• An annual wellness stipend is available for eligible wellness-related expenses.
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents is offered.
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, includes a $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
• In-person and virtual events are organized to connect with fellow employees, along with delicious snack boxes.