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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, Af

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace, App Experience

Location

Canada

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

$181K - $241K / 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. • Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability. • 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. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team. • 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.
  • 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 to understand how they work.
  • 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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