Chime is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Events team. You will be responsible for building the distributed systems that power the trader experience, helping define and evolve the event-driven architecture that serves as the communication backbone across our platforms.
What You'll Do
- Partner with the technical lead and architect to evolve and strengthen our NATS-based event platform as it scales.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to champion event-driven best practices and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
- Design, build, and operate cloud-native services with an emphasis on reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity.
- Contribute to backend architecture and help establish patterns that improve consistency and long-term maintainability across teams.
- Embed automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into every stage of feature delivery.
- Proactively identify and resolve issues, helping ensure our platform remains stable, performant, and ready to grow.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade backend systems with user-facing APIs, with demonstrated impact on scalability and reliability.
- Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable, distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, and race condition handling, with a strong focus on performance, security, and maintainability.
- Strong database fundamentals, including experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server—schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
- A solid full-stack foundation, with strength in backend API design (TypeScript, GraphQL, REST) and modern frontend development (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for a range of audiences.
- A production mindset and bias toward action—embracing metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end ownership of delivery.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with event-driven architectures using systems such as NATS, Kafka, or similar message brokers.
- Experience defining clear service boundaries, API versioning strategies, and event-driven patterns within microservices or modular architectures.
- Comfort with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building financial, trading, or fintech platforms where data consistency, performance, and reliability are mission-critical.
- A track record of positively influencing engineering culture through mentorship, strong documentation, and technical leadership.
Technical Stack
- TypeScript, React, Next.js, GraphQL, REST
- PostgreSQL, SQL Server
- NATS, Kafka
Team & Environment
Join the Events team at Chime.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $157,000-$193,000
- Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave.
- Paid time off is front-loaded.
- Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees.
- Vacation bonus for taking 5 consecutive days.
- Employee referral bonuses.
- Food and groceries budget.
- Contributions towards health and wellness.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position open to candidates in the United States.
Topstep is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees and applicants are valued. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
