Chime Financial, Inc - Senior Python Core Engineer
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Requirements
• ✨ 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 • 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.
Responsibilities
• Own Chime’s Python version standards, upgrade cadence, and compliance, reducing EOL exposure and security patch lag • version standards, upgrade cadence, and compliance • Design and drive safe, repeatable Python upgrade processes across services and shared libraries, enabling teams to adopt new versions with minimal friction • safe, repeatable Python upgrade processes • Establish clear dependency management practices (e.g., version locking policies, upgrade safety, library compatibility strategies) • dependency management • Partner with CI/CD stakeholders to improve build performance, reliability, and developer experience for Python projects • build performance, reliability, and developer experience • Maintain and develop critical internal Python libraries including roadmap, quality, and adoption • Define and evangelize Python best practices (“the Chime way”), aligned with community standards, and support teams through documentation and enablement • Python best practices • Identify and drive opportunities to maximize returns from the Python + AI ecosystem, evaluating tools, practices, and vendor options that improve iteration speed and outcomes • Python + AI ecosystem • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on expertise in Python in production • Python in production • Strong experience with Python build tooling, and an understanding of tradeoffs in versioning and distribution • Python build tooling • Understanding of asynchronous and synchronous data-sharing patterns (pub/sub, RPC, caching, etc.). • Solid knowledge of containerized environments and build systems (Docker images, CI pipelines, caching, reproducible builds) • containerized environments • Experience building and maintaining shared libraries used by multiple teams, including API design, backwards compatibility, and release management • A security- and reliability-first mindset, especially around EOL management, patching and build integrity • EOL management, patching and build integrity • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills—able to influence without authority and align multiple teams around standards and migrations • Comfort operating with ambiguous requirements, creating clarity through docs, prototypes, and incremental rollout plans • Bonus: experience working in/supporting data engineering and ML • data engineering and ML • Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation. Being on call may include responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary. • #LI-Remote #LI-GC1
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