Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure
Qualified.com230,000 - 260,000 USD/year
- Full Time
- Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Junior (1 to 2 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial Technology, E-commerce, Consumer FinanceIndustries
Requirements
Candidates should possess 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale utilizing languages such as Python or Kotlin, along with an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems leveraging technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes. Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through the definition of a technical and execution plan is also required.
Responsibilities
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed. You will act as a force-multiplier for your team by defining and advocating technical solutions and operational processes, taking ownership of your team’s operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support “keep the lights on” and on-call efforts. Furthermore, you will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by establishing code review and design standards, advocating for them beyond your team, and helping develop talent by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example, and fulfilling the on-call rotation requirement.
Skills
Information Retrieval
Ranking
Embeddings
Large-scale Distributed Systems
Search Technologies
Machine Learning
Scalability
Operational Monitoring
System Reliability
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