3 days ago
Base Salary
$173k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics on ideation, technical constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
- Identify and lead solutions for project, process, technology, and business issues.
- Operate and improve team artifacts through metrics, monitoring, escalation, and on-call support.
- Set and improve code review and design standards and promote quality through writing and technical talks.
- Develop talent by providing feedback, guidance, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Experience building highly available distributed systems with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to define technical plans and design significant system components with simple, extensible architectures.
- Strong experience making significant changes safely in large codebases.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration across a global engineering team.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience training and deploying production machine learning models is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility within the country of employment and occasional in-person work as needed.
- In-person onboarding experience for all new hires.
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan allowing employees to buy Affirm stock at a discount.
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About Affirm
Affirm provides buy now, pay later installment financing at online and in-store checkout, along with a consumer app and virtual card, for shoppers and merchants. It monetizes through merchant fees and interest on select loans, with no late fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Affirm is a public company listed on NASDAQ that powers payments for thousands of ecommerce retailers.