Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Principle Engineer to lead the development of world-class traffic management capabilities. You will set the technical vision and strategy for next-generation traffic management, capacity planning, and load testing. Collaborate with the broader engineering organization to understand service load and develop capacity models and load testing frameworks. Champion innovative solutions and foster a culture of innovation. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and technical expertise, along with extensive experience in traffic management and large-scale system design. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including equity, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Has been responsible for traffic management, load testing or capacity planning at an organization with hundreds of millions of users
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing traffic shaping, cluster management, and load shedding systems at scale
• 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

• Set the technical vision and strategy for the next generation of traffic management, capacity planning, and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm
• Safely build and expand our traffic management capabilities by applying a deep understanding of traffic management: gentle retries, circuit breakers, load shedding, and load prioritization
• Collaborate with the broader engineering organization to understand service load: from day to day operations to peak events. Then develop and rollout next generation capacity models and load testing frameworks
• 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
• Effectively convey a clear vision, influence senior leadership to focus on strategic investments, and lead fellow engineers to achieve impactful results

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) 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