Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the development of next-generation capacity planning and load testing. You will set the technical strategy, collaborate with engineering teams, and champion innovative solutions. This role demands experience in load testing, cluster management, and delivering complex engineering projects. You will mentor engineers and effectively communicate technical strategies. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including a high base pay, equity, stipends, and comprehensive benefits such as 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending wallets, and generous time off.

Requirements

• Has been responsible for load testing or capacity planning at an organization with millions of users and uneven/seasonal traffic
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing cluster management, and load testing at scale
• Successful track record leading and delivering multi-quarter, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated ability to successfully collaborate with other senior staff engineers and architects across many teams
• Exceptional leader who can mentor high potential engineers earlier in their career
• Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery
• Strong communicator who effectively lays out their technical strategy to their engineering organization
• 12+ years software engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy for the next generation of capacity planning and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm
• Collaborate with the broader engineering organization to understand service load: from day to day operations to peak events. Then develop and rollout next generation capacity models and load testing frameworks
• Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization
• Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas
• Effectively convey a clear vision, influence senior leadership to focus on strategic investments, and lead fellow engineers to achieve impactful results

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates)

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Equity rewards
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
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• Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company!