2 months ago
Base Salary
$173k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems.
- Set technical direction, define architecture, and develop long-term technical strategy for full-stack systems.
- Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders on product decisions, constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
- Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
- Identify and lead solutions to project, process, technology, and business issues.
- Create and monitor operational metrics, escalate issues when needed, and support on-call efforts.
- Set and improve code review and design standards, and advocate for quality through writing and technical talks.
- Mentor engineers, provide feedback and guidance, and help develop talent.
- Build polished, performant, accessible experiences that improve customer trust, conversion, retention, and growth.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Experience leading significant mobile initiatives using React Native or native development, including architecture, cross-functional launches, and production reliability.
- Experience working across React Native and native Swift/Kotlin boundaries, debugging platform-specific issues, and improving mobile tooling and release processes.
- Experience implementing experimentation, feature flagging, and analytics instrumentation in mobile applications.
- Experience shipping web applications with declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
- Proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience designing, developing, and launching scalable backend systems using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to define technical plans, make architectural decisions, and write elegant, extensible, high-quality code.
- Experience making significant changes safely in a large codebase using appropriate tools and practices.
- Either equivalent practical experience or a bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and a demonstrated commitment to ownership and continuous growth.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with the ability to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending Wallet stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy Affirm shares at a discount.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process.
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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.