Senior Software Engineer (Capacity and Cloud Economics Engineering)

Canada

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$60,000 – $90,000Compensation

Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Cloud Computing, Software EngineeringIndustries

Position Overview

Location Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: Not specified

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. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s optimizing cloud infrastructure & distributed systems and has experience with scale to join our Capacity & Cloud Economics Engineering team. We enable Affirm to build and scale our Infrastructure globally in an engineering efficient, developer friendly, cost-effective, resilient, performant and secure manner and ensure that Affirm can uphold our SLA commitments. Our work ranges from developing and maintaining a distributed load-testing framework, scaling for the holiday season, developing capacity models, reducing our infrastructure costs, capacity tuning and having fun along the way!

Requirements

Experience: 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in languages like Python or Kotlin.
- Experience with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with load testing frameworks like Locust or a similar framework.
Other:
- Track record of developing highly available distributed systems.
- Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Delivery:
- Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
- Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
- Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle through collaboration with product management, design & analytics.
Problem Solving & Advocacy:
- Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues and advocate for solutions.
- Lead in solving identified issues.
Operations & Support:
- Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts.
- Create and monitor metrics, escalate when needed, and support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
Quality & Ownership:
- 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.
Talent Development:
- Assist with right-sizing compute and data workloads to make our infrastructure highly available and cost-effective.
Collaboration & Optimization:
- Collaborate with other infrastructure and product teams, providing technical guidance on capacity tuning to optimize production performance and enabling effective performance testing.

Application Instructions

Not specified

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.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2012Year Founded

$1,113.8MTotal Funding

IPOCompany Stage

Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries

1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Spending wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses

Supportive communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups

Remote-first workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country

Generous time off: Take the time you need when life happens

Health benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs

Mental healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs

Parental leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay.

Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family.

Away days: We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge.

Learning & development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth.

Risks

Increased CFPB regulation could raise compliance costs for Affirm.

Affirm faces competition from new entrants in the BNPL market.

Reliance on partners like Adyen and Apple poses potential revenue risks.

Differentiation

Affirm offers transparent installment loans with no hidden fees or surprises.

Affirm partners with over 2,000 merchants, including major retail brands.

Affirm's user-friendly APIs enable seamless integration with online and in-store platforms.

Upsides

Affirm's partnership with Adyen expands its reach in North America.

Affirm's $4 billion partnership with Sixth Street boosts financial stability.

Affirm's BNPL services gain traction among high-income consumers.

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