Affirm is hiring a
Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Online Infrastructure team as a Technical Lead to shape and own the company's strategy for managing and serving computing workloads. Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations. Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools to handle new products and business needs that can securely scale across millions of users and their transactions.

Requirements

• Proficient in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration technologies
• Experience with cloud-native traffic management, networking, and security concepts at scale (Istio, Cilium, eBPF)
• Experience in designing and creating cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies
• Solid CS fundamentals and practical coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services with Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other cloud providers
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Istio, and Nginx, but we are open to exploring new technologies
• Have an enthusiastic vision for leading technical teams and mentoring other engineers
• You prefer leveraging, enhancing, and contributing to Open Source solutions rather than starting from scratch
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Infrastructure team
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across the platform engineering and product engineering organizations
• Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools to handle new Affirm products and business needs that can securely scale across millions of users and their transactions
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team, promoting best practices in design, coding, and testing

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