2 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$153k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems
- Set technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and define long-term technical strategy for full-stack development
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics on ideation, technical constraints, risks, and trade-offs
- Own team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting
- Identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology, and business issues
- Create and monitor operational metrics, escalate issues, and support keep-the-lights-on and on-call efforts
- Set and improve code review and design standards and advocate for them through writing and technical talks
- Mentor engineers, provide feedback and guidance, and help develop team talent
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience leading significant mobile initiatives using React Native or native technologies, including architecture, cross-functional launches, and production reliability
- Experience working across React Native and native Swift/Kotlin boundaries, debugging platform-specific issues, and improving developer tooling, CI/CD, 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 and create elegant, simple, extensible designs for significant features or system components
- Ability to make significant changes in large codebases safely using appropriate tools and practices
- Either equivalent practical experience or a bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with most roles remote 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)
- Monthly health, wellness, and technology spending stipends may be available
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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.