On-siteFull Time$199k - $275k per yearPosted 10 days ago
About the role
We’re looking for a Technical Lead Manager (TLM) to lead our CI/CD team, the group that owns how every Chime engineer builds, integrates, and safely ships code
Your team owns the integration and delivery surface: source and code intelligence (GitHub, Sourcegraph), continuous integration and build (CircleCI, Qlty), artifacts (Artifactory), and the release-safety layer that gets changes to production without breaking it
Your team’s mission is continuous, safe, reliable, and efficient integration and delivery of features
Every merge and every deployment at Chime runs through what your team builds
This is a player-coach role
Under Chime’s Builder Operating Model, the TLM is a single accountable owner at the team level
You own both delivery and people for a small team, and you stay hands-on in the codebase
You’ll spend about 40%+ of your time building, authoring PRs that land in production, with the remainder split across people management, planning, and other business processes
You’ll lead a team of 4 engineers, own the roadmap for a high-leverage platform surface, and be directly accountable for the reliability of the pipelines and release systems in the critical path of every Chime team
You’re expected to use AI coding agents and workflows to keep planning, operations, and delivery overhead low so you can stay in the code and operate the team
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Benefits
Physical: We believe in taking care of your physical health, so as a Chimer you’ll get medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as benefits to support your physical activity, family planning, and all of your little Chimers
Emotional: We know that staying healthy involves a lot more than doctor’s checkups. We partner with Modern Health to help you navigate your mental health, give monthly Take Care of Yourself Days, and want you to take time off when you need it
Financial: We want Chimers to save and feel financially supported, so we offer savings plans with competitive matching, as well as access to financial planning and legal assistance so that you can find your financial peace of mind
Social: We’ll celebrate your milestones together with travel stipends, swag, and high-fives and make sure you’re connected to fellow Chimers through our Chime Resource Groups (CRGs) and company events
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
A track record of delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems: continuous integration, build pipelines, artifact management, or progressive delivery
Hands-on experience with CI systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or comparable), build pipelines, and artifact management in production (must-have)
Experience with progressive and safe delivery: canaries, release gating, feature flagging, and rollback strategies
Excellent written and verbal communication and a collaborative, low-ego approach to cross-team leadership
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
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
A customer-obsessed mindset toward internal developers. You measure success by the productivity and reliability experienced by the engineers who build on your platform
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitOps-based deployment in production
Strong understanding of operating production systems at scale: reliability, observability, incident response, and the operational discipline platform ownership demands
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
Experience with code intelligence and quality tooling (Sourcegraph, Artifactory, code-quality and linting systems)
Familiarity with common monitoring, logging, and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog)
Experience in financial services or other high-reliability, regulated environments