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 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 compensation and benefits, including comprehensive health coverage, flexible spending wallets, generous time off, and an employee stock purchase plan.

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
• 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
• Visa sponsorship
• Remote work in Spain
• 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