Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Infrastructure Platform Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the reliability and scalability of our distributed systems. You will own quarterly goals, lead engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and proactively identify and solve issues. Responsibilities include supporting system operations, fostering a culture of quality, and developing team talent. This role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience, expertise in backend systems and web app development, and strong communication skills. Affirm offers competitive benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage, flexible spending wallets, competitive time off, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Requirements

• Have a total of 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Be experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
• Have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue
• Ensure high availability (HA) and resilience of critical services through runbooks, incident response strategies, and post-mortem analysis
• Partner with Observability and Reliability teams to proactively detect and mitigate potential outages
• 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
• Automate operational tasks, deployments, failover processes, and scaling strategies to reduce manual intervention
• Be 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
• Partner closely with Storage & Replication, Cloud, CI/CD, and Security teams to ensure Affirm’s infrastructure meets high operational standards
• Demonstrate that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery
• Support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them
• Support 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
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• Help 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
• Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
• 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
• Creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
• Remote work in Poland
• 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