Senior Software Engineer, Backend
FlexSalary not specified
- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
$60,000 – $90,000Compensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Cloud Computing, Software EngineeringIndustries
Requirements
Candidates should possess 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale utilizing languages such as Python or Kotlin, along with a proven track record of building highly available distributed systems employing technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Experience with load testing frameworks like Locust or similar is also required.
Responsibilities
The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring team support throughout delivery. They will collaborate with product management, design, and analytics, participating in ideation and articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions considering risks and trade-offs. The role involves proactively identifying and advocating for solutions to project, process, technology, or business issues, supporting the operations and availability of team artifacts through metrics and escalation, fostering a culture of quality and ownership, and assisting with right-sizing compute and data workloads to ensure high availability and cost-effectiveness. Finally, they will collaborate with other infrastructure and product teams, providing technical guidance on capacity tuning and enabling effective performance testing.
Skills
Python
Kotlin
AWS
MySQL
Kubernetes
Locust
Load Testing
Distributed Systems
Capacity Planning
Cost-Effectiveness
Performance Testing
Affirm
Provides buy now, pay later financing solutions
About Affirm
Affirm offers point-of-sale financing solutions as an alternative to traditional credit cards. It allows consumers to make purchases and pay over time through installment plans, often without hidden fees or deferred interest. Affirm partners with merchants to integrate its payment solutions into online and in-store shopping experiences, using user-friendly plugins and APIs. The company generates revenue from interest and fees on loans to consumers, as well as fees from merchants for offering its financing options. Affirm also provides a merchant dashboard for transaction processing and promotional tools to help businesses market these financing options effectively. The goal of Affirm is to empower consumers with flexible payment options while providing value to merchants in the e-commerce and retail markets.
Key Metrics
San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2012Year Founded
$1,113.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees