Staff Software Engineer (Search Platform)

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. The Search Platform team is building the next generation of Affirm Marketplace Search, helping millions of consumers find the best financing options with increasingly relevant search results. We are a high-impact team leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build and maintain a highly available, scalable search platform. Our work directly shapes the user experience, driving business growth and innovation. As part of our team, you will collaborate with cross-functional product, engineering, and data science teams to experiment, iterate, and optimize search relevance. Solve complex technical challenges in information retrieval, ranking, embeddings, and large-scale distributed systems, and work in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment where your ideas and contributions will have a direct impact. We foster a supportive and collaborative culture, where engineers take ownership, challenge the status quo, and grow together. If you're excited about search, machine learning, and building impactful consumer experiences, come join us in shaping the future of Affirm’s Marketplace!

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle, working with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take 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.
• Foster 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.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

On-Call Rotation

• There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Distributed Systems: Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Delivery: Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
• Coding: Write high-quality code that is easily maintainable.