Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the technical direction and foster innovation within the Discovery Domain. Collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to build scalable and reliable solutions, shaping best practices and driving critical initiatives. This role demands strong technical abilities, leadership, communication, and creativity. You will build large-scale distributed systems and develop the Discovery domain's technology strategy. The Discovery domain focuses on features that attract new users, engage existing ones, and provide value through search, data optimization, marketing, and marketplace tools. This position offers a competitive compensation package including equity, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Passionate: Passionate about Affirm's Mission: "Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives"
• Technical: Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language. We primarily use Python, but members of our team have backgrounds in a wide range of technologies
• Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers
• Humble: You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
• User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience
• Experienced: Background building real-time distributed web services, developing systems in web application frameworks and implementing highly available data storage
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Build a multi year technical strategy for Discovery domain focused on product roadmap, availability and scale
• Partner with the architecture team at Affirm to guide architectural choices within the Discovery domain
• Influence or make product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver customer value quickly
• 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 pipelines
• 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

• 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