3 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$181k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to critical business-impacting projects.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle to manage sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
- Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that multiply team effectiveness.
- Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call practices.
- Establish code review and design standards and promote quality and ownership through writing and technical talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Experience using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with financial systems, ledgering, treasury, or adjacent domains where data accuracy and reliability are critical.
- Experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, through technical and execution planning.
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable, reusable code and work from low-level language details through large-system architecture.
- Demonstrated growth and impact through gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Benefits
- Remote-first role open to candidates residing in specified Canadian provinces.
- Affirm covers health care premiums for employees and dependents, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Wallets provide stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted shares.
- Monthly stipends may be available for health, wellness, and technology spending.
- 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.