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Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience
Location
California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | New Jersey | New York | Washington
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
$204K - $290K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience
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 to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed. • Act as a force-multiplier for your team through 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 and advocating for them beyond your team through 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 developing consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React
- 2+ years of experience working in search or related recommendation engines
- Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
- Thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
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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