Senior Software Engineer, Traffic Engineering

Summary

Join Affirm's Traffic Engineering team as a leader in building and exposing simple interfaces of online infrastructure components. You will own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensure everyone is supported throughout delivery.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• Experience developing fault-tolerant, multi-region online backend systems
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or other cloud providers
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus
• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design
• You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team
• Leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• Ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery
• Supporting your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics
• Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues, advocating for them, and leading in solving them
• Supporting the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team
• Advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage
• Dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• 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