Affirm is a financial services company that is on a mission to provide its customers with “honest financial products that improve lives.” As an employer, Affirm maintains a rem
Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Capacity Modeling
Location
Canada
Posted
20 days ago
Salary
$178K - $228K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Capacity Modeling
Affirm
• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. • Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed. • Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes. • Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. • Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
- Experience supporting scale up and down of large scale sales events such as Prime Day, Black Friday Cyber Monday, or other sales holidays.
- Experience tuning autoscaling, CPU/Memory, and multi-threading for compute type workloads.
- Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
Benefits
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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