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.
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.