Base Salary
$204k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to critical business-impacting projects
- Shape the systems powering post-checkout orders, captures, refunds, settlement, and related APIs
- Define technical solutions, execution plans, domain boundaries, and migration approaches for the platform
- Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call practices
- Establish code review and design standards and advocate for engineering quality through writing and tech talks
- Mentor engineers, provide feedback and guidance, and develop talent
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale
- Experience with highly available distributed systems and technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes
- Backend development experience using languages such as Python or Kotlin
- Strong understanding of API boundaries, reliability, consistency, idempotency, and failure modes
- Experience in payments, commerce, ledger, or another financially sensitive domain is preferred
- Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecations through technical and execution plans
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable, reusable code
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and experience collaborating across engineering and cross-functional teams
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with most roles allowing work from almost anywhere within the country of employment
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets with stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Reasonable accommodations available during the hiring process
Tech Stack
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About Affirm
At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products. We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more. A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email. Affirm is also proud to be a remote-first company! Attracting great people starts by finding talent in different places. That's why we built remote work into the DNA of how we do business—but if an office space is more your style, we have offices in Chicago, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Warsaw, Madrid and London. Not to mention we have comprehensive and award-winning benefits that were made for you. Interested in learning more? Check out our careers page and apply today! Visit affirm.com/careers for more information.