Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer Payments)

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. 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. As part of the Consumer Payments team at Affirm, you'll be working on Affirm's Payment Processing Network. These systems process billions of dollars in payments each year and are vital components in Affirm's platform. We are looking for highly motivated software engineers who are passionate about building high throughput, high availability systems that can grow alongside a high growth business. You will be working alongside multiple partner teams across Europe and the US to support feature development, international expansion as well as moving the dial on key metrics that help us ensure Affirm users are able to pay in the way they want, without harming their financial health.

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.
• Knowledge of Payment systems and experience working in the financial technology industry.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
• Writes high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Thrives in ambiguity and is comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.

Responsibilities

• Setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and helping your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Acting as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Taking ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Application Instructions

• Not specified. (Further details on how to apply would be included here if available.)