4 hours ago
Base Salary
$173k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team 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 resolution of project, process, technology, and business issues.
- Create and monitor metrics, escalate issues, and support operational availability, keep-the-lights-on work, and on-call efforts.
- Set and improve code review and design standards and advocate for quality and ownership through writing and technical talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Experience building highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Ability to define technical plans for significant features or system components with elegant, simple, and extensible designs.
- Proficiency making significant changes in large codebases and developing practices that enable safe changes.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility within the country of employment and occasional in-person work as required.
- All new hires are invited to an in-person onboarding experience.
- 100% company-paid medical coverage for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision benefits.
- Monthly technology and 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.