2 months ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and connect it to business-impacting projects.
- Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, and engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that multiply team effectiveness.
- Own team operations and availability, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
- Establish code review and design standards and promote quality and ownership through writing and tech talks.
- Develop talent by providing feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
- Design, develop, and launch backend systems and major features at scale.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Experience building highly available distributed systems with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with backend programming languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Experience delivering major features or system components, deprecating existing functionality, and defining technical and execution plans.
- Ability to understand systems from low-level language idioms through large-scale architecture.
- Demonstrated growth through gathering and applying feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with the role based remotely in the UK.
- Affirm covers 100% of medical coverage premiums for employees and dependents, with dental and vision coverage also available.
- Flexible Spending Wallets provide stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy Affirm shares at a discount.
- Potential eligibility for equity rewards and monthly health, wellness, and technology stipends.
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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.