Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Capacity Modeling

🕒 May 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for team on a year-long time scale • Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle ensuring technical sustainability • Act as a force-multiplier for the team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions • Take ownership of team operations and availability through monitoring and triage • Foster a culture of quality on the team by setting code review and design standards • Help develop talent by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. • Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes. • Experience supporting scale up and down of large scale sales events such as Prime Day, Black Friday Cyber Monday, or other sales holidays • Tuned autoscaling, CPU/Memory, and multi-threading for compute type workloads. • Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. • Strong understanding of low level language idioms to large systems architecture. • Growth and impact trajectory demonstrating mastery in gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers. • Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

🏖️ 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