Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Deal Reporting team as a Staff Software Engineer and help build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure for international loan funding. You will set technical strategy, collaborate across teams, and act as a force-multiplier for your team. Responsibilities include owning team operations, fostering a culture of quality, and developing team talent. You will partner with Capitals Markets teams to implement complex financial structures and integrations, design and develop core services, and automate away complexity and risk. This role requires 8+ years of backend system development experience and expertise in distributed systems and technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes. The position offers competitive benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage, flexible spending wallets, and learning & development programs.

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
• Partner with Capitals Markets teams to implement complex financial structures and integrations
• Design and develop core services which will enable safe and auditable scaling of critical business processes
• Learn about structured finance including warehouse lending, forward flow, and ABS (Asset Backed Securitization)
• Automate away complexity and risk

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with deployment and automated testing frameworks is a plus
• Familiarity with Spark, AWS (EC2, ECS, S3), and Kubernetes is a plus
• Familiarity with Spark/Pandas is a plus
• Prior experience with financial systems and capital markets is a plus

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
• This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
• 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