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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

• Define frameworks and best practices for operating applications • Build tooling and provide training and consulting • Provide data and visibility on application performance • Guide the development of SLOs • Drive Incident Management and Analysis • Steer Change Management and Deployment practices • Engage in service and architectural conversations • Recommend observability and alerting configurations • Own and deliver quarterly team goals • Lead engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems and support delivery • Collaborate with infrastructure, product management, developer experience and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle • Identify technical solutions and operational processes that improve incident readiness, response and post-incident analysis • Create and monitor metrics, escalate when needed, and support availability, keep-the-lights-on and on-call efforts • Set or improve code review and design standards and advocate for them through writing and tech talks • Develop team talent through feedback, guidance and leading by example • Participate in the required on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale • Proficiency with scripting and development languages such as Bash, Python or Kotlin • Track record developing highly available distributed systems • Experience with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes • Meaningful experience contributing to or driving Incident Lifecycle processes • 4+ years working on a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team • Experience defining technical plans for significant features or system components • Ability to write high-quality, understandable and reusable code • Experience making impactful changes in a large codebase • Experience developing tools and practices for safe changes • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to participate in a required on-call rotation

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents • Dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle • Away Days — wellness days to take off work and recharge • Learning & Development programs • Parental benefit • Employee Resource & Community Groups • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules • ESPP — employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy shares of Affirm at a discount • Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process