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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

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Growth

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 2,200Since 2012Company Site

Location

California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | New Jersey | New York | Washington

Posted

9 days ago

Salary

$173K - $255K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Growth

Affirm

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. • Support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. • Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. • Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving 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

  • 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
  • Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
  • Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, developing a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
  • 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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