Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Decisions and Pricing team as a Engineering Manager and lead a team in delivering quarterly goals, supporting stakeholders in product development, and proactively identifying and solving issues. You will foster a culture of quality and ownership, develop team talent, and build APIs and data models within a microservice architecture. The role requires 4+ years of experience in backend system design and development at scale, proficiency in Python and Kotlin/Java, and experience with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. You will also need strong communication skills and a proven ability to architect and maintain complex systems. Affirm offers competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending wallets, competitive time off, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python and Kotlin/Java
• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages
• Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
• Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
• 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 written and verbal communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team
• Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• Ensure 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 "keeps the lights on" & on-call efforts
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standard 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
• Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures
• Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data
• Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion

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 benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups
• Creative tax benefits
• 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