Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Continuous Integration

🕒 May 27

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Own the design, scalability, and reliability of build and pipelines across multiple services and platforms. • Ensure fast, reliable feedback cycles for developers by optimizing build times, test coverage, and reporting. • Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for CI systems to minimize downtime. • Work closely with across engineering to ensure smooth integrations and deployment workflows. • Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and best practices. • Evangelize CI/CD practices across the organization to raise engineering efficiency standards. • Contribute to and help drive the vision for continuous integration and developer productivity infrastructure. • Lead and mentor other CI engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence. • Partner with engineering leadership to align CI systems with broader product and platform goals.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience driving and leading engineering efforts in CI, build systems, or developer productivity domains. • Strong background in modern build systems (e.g. GitHub, Buildkite, Artifactory, Bazel). • Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code practices. • Solid programming background (Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar) and ability to guide technical decision-making. • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance long-term vision with short-term impact. • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field • Proficiency with managing build systems and frameworks for large monorepos. Preferred experience in Bazel. • Active contributor to open source projects or previous experience with large-scale software development at a leading tech company is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount