Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Staff Software Engineer to build scalable systems and data pipelines for financial reporting. Partner with Product and Accounting teams to design robust reporting and reconciliation systems ensuring data accuracy and timeliness for various teams. Collaborate on roadmaps, design technical solutions, and participate in cross-team initiatives. Take ownership of team operations and availability, fostering a culture of quality and ownership. Develop team talent through feedback and guidance. This role involves an on-call rotation. Affirm offers competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, flexible spending wallets, away days, learning and development programs, parental leave, and an ESPP.

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, policies, 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
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of Airflow, Data Lake (e.g. Apache Iceberg) and Data Warehouse (e.g. Snowflake) solutions is a plus

Benefits

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - 6
• Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents)
• In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
• ESP base pay range per year: €101,000  -  €131,000
• 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
• 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