Affirm is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join us in reinventing credit at Affirm! We're looking for a Comms Platform team member to manage critical services, ensuring uninterrupted operations. The ideal candidate will have experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and knowledge of backend languages.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring senior engineers
• Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns (e.g: Kotlin, Python, Flask, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others)
• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP etc
• Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
• Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience — ours, our stakeholders', and our company's — as we do the design of our engineering systems
• You are not dogmatic and believe in solving problems with the right tool for the job
• Experience providing reviews on teammates code and designs, providing constructive feedback to meet a high bar of quality and help others grow
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication
• Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow. Ambiguity is where you thrive

Responsibilities

• Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources
• Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
• Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
• Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other engineers, both inside and outside the immediate team
• Foster a respectful and supportive environment that embraces the diversity of the team
• Review others' work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
• Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave
• Employee Resource & Community Groups