Senior Staff Software Engineer, Repayments

Summary

Join us at Affirm as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help drive the evolution of our Repayments platform with a focus on extensibility, robustness, and performance.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
• A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be proficient in asynchronous communication – written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc
• Excellent project management skills – high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively
• Business impact focus, pragmatic approach to delivering projects on time and safely
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Risk, Analytics etc
• Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus
• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers

Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of our Repayments platform with a focus on extensibility, robustness, and performance
• Draft, review, and refine technical specification documents
• Participate in architectural reviews and closely collaborate with other tech leads in the Direct-To-Consumer department
• Help create the engineering strategy for the Repayments Nexus group based on the broader engineering strategy and informed by the Repayments product strategy
• Define the technical roadmap for the Repayments Nexus group
• Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and robust solutions
• Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures
• Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data
• Take an active role in mentoring engineers, and the processes that support team growth and efficiency

Benefits

• Base Pay Grade - R
• Equity Grade - UK 9
• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
• 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