Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. You will play a key role in defining the technical direction and fostering innovation across the engineering organization. Collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to create scalable, reliable, and high-performing solutions. Shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. This role demands strong technical abilities, leadership skills, and excellent communication. You will build large-scale distributed systems and develop technology strategy for a domain within Affirm's engineering organization. Affirm offers competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical coverage, flexible spending stipends, and generous time off.

Requirements

• Passionate about Affirm's Mission: "Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives"
• Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language
• Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers
• Has the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
• Cares about the details in the user experience
• Background building real-time distributed web services, developing systems in web application frameworks and implementing highly available data storage

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new products and features to be built
• Architect and build the next version of our data-processing pipeline
• Create 3rd party developer APIs and tools
• Analyze/debug performance issues across distributed services
• Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Equity rewards
• 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
• Remote work