Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Loans Platform)

About Affirm

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for the Loans Platform team, which is responsible for Affirm’s core loans products. We are experiencing exponential growth, and we want you to guide the team to scale the product by 100x and beyond, and add new features to make our loans even more compelling and accessible to more consumers. You will work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to support the growth of the company by launching new products. We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride!

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics. This includes 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. Advocate for these standards beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• 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. You write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Proficiency in making significant changes in a large codebase, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Demonstrated ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Grade: N
• Equity Grade: 8
• USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000
• USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000
• Additional benefits include:
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle
  • Away Days - wellness days to take off
  • Equity rewards
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
  • Benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents)