Senior Software Engineer – SRE, Backend, Reliability Engineering

September 12

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Affirm

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

📋 Description

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team; lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems • Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design and analytics; participate in ideation and articulate technical constraints • Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them • Support operations and availability of team artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting on-call efforts • Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards and advocating through writing and tech talks • Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance and leading by example • Provide data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance • Guide the development of SLOs and drive the Incident Management and Analysis process • Steer implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices and engage in service and architectural conversations • Recommend observability and alerting configurations and participate in capacity management, load and chaos testing

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin • Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes • 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team • Demonstrates curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held • Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design • Writes high quality code that is easily understood and used by others • Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base and has developed tools and practices to do so safely • Takes ownership of growth and proactively seeks feedback from team, manager, and stakeholders • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents • Dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules (time off) • ESPP - Employee Stock Purchase Plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount • Equity rewards (may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc.) • Remote-first company with flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment • Reasonable accommodations for candidates during the hiring process