Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Principle Engineer to develop world-class infrastructure platform capabilities. You will help set the technical vision and strategy for platforms serving engineers and customers, provide technical guidance, lead teams, and champion innovative solutions. This role requires experience building and managing infrastructure platforms, leading complex projects, and mentoring engineers. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is needed, along with 15+ years of software engineering experience. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including a high base pay, equity rewards, stipends, and comprehensive benefits like 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents. The position is remote-first, allowing flexibility in work location.

Requirements

• Have built and managed infrastructure platforms serving hundreds of engineers and millions of customers
• Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and partner with staff and senior staff software engineers
• Exceptional leader who can mentor high potential engineers earlier in their career
• Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery
• Strong communicator who effectively lays out their technical vision to the broader engineering organization
• 15+ years software engineering experience
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Help set the technical vision and strategy for the platforms, frameworks, and services that enable every engineer at Affirm and serve every customer
• Provide technical guidance and influence in other areas of Engineering
• Lead technical teams and collaborate with the broader engineering organization to deliver solutions that improve reliability, lower costs, and enable developers
• Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization
• Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) is a plus
• Experience building developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, and implementing test frameworks is a plus

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Equity rewards
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
• Remote work