Chime Financial, Inc - Tech Lead Manager, Platform

• Build and ship, hands-on. Author and review PRs that land in production. Own the team's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar; partner with senior ICs and lead technical design discussions and technical planning. • Build and ship, hands-on. • Lead and grow the team. Own full people management for the team: 1:1s, career coaching, performance feedback, promotion decisions, and hiring. Build an inclusive, high-trust team and own its health and engagement. Mentor engineers toward Staff or a future TLM path. • Lead and grow the team. • Own the CI/CD platform. Set direction and delivery for the build and integration systems (GitHub, CircleCI, Artifactory, Sourcegraph, Qlty etc): fast, reliable, self-service pipelines with strong documentation and low-friction adoption so every product team ships faster with less support burden. • Own the CI/CD platform. • Be accountable for safe delivery at scale. Own the release-safety toolkit (Release Guard, canaries and progressive delivery, feature flagging with Tuner, and rollback) and the operational discipline behind it: incident prevention, incident response, SLAs, and blameless learning for systems in the critical path of every deploy. • Be accountable for safe delivery at scale. • Balance the platform-team tension. Weigh new capabilities against keep-the-lights-on work, security remediation, and dependency upgrades, and make those trade-offs legible to engineers, cross-functional partners, and leadership. • Balance the platform-team tension. • Champion AI-driven velocity. Use AI coding agents and tooling to scale yourself and your team across planning, coding, and ops/triage, and introduce workflows that measurably improve team velocity. • Champion AI-driven velocity. • Own cross-functional coordination. Serve as the XFN point of contact for your platform's capabilities. Coordinate inbound requests and outbound dependencies, partner with client engineering teams and sibling platform teams (Release Enablement, Developer Foundations) on scope and delivery commitments, and tie-break technical decisions. • Own cross-functional coordination. • Partner across the Platform Org. Work closely with product engineering teams, security, Core Infrastructure, and other Engineering Services leaders on shared roadmaps, dependencies, and other initiatives. • Partner across the Platform Org. • 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years leading or managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development, with the appetite and ability to stay hands-on in the codebase. • 5+ years of software engineering experience • 2+ years leading or managing engineers • A track record of delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems: continuous integration, build pipelines, artifact management, or progressive delivery. • delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems • Hands-on experience with CI systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or comparable), build pipelines, and artifact management in production (must-have). • Hands-on experience with CI systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or comparable), build pipelines, and artifact management • Hands-on technical depth you can still exercise: you author and review production PRs and can lead technical design, not just delegate it. Strong development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or comparable languages. • Hands-on technical depth • Experience with progressive and safe delivery: canaries, release gating, feature flagging, and rollback strategies. • progressive and safe delivery • Strong understanding of operating production systems at scale: reliability, observability, incident response, and the operational discipline platform ownership demands. • operating production systems at scale • The judgment to balance delivery velocity against safety, reliability, and technical-debt realities, and the communication skills to make those trade-offs clear to engineers and executives alike. • balance delivery velocity against safety, reliability, and technical-debt realities • Demonstrated use of AI coding agents and tooling to accelerate development and team velocity, with a concrete example of the impact on your team's output. • Demonstrated use of AI coding agents and tooling • A customer-obsessed mindset toward internal developers. You measure success by the productivity and reliability experienced by the engineers who build on your platform. • customer-obsessed mindset toward internal developers • Excellent written and verbal communication and a collaborative, low-ego approach to cross-team leadership. • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitOps-based deployment in production. • Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitOps-based deployment