Affirm

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Affirm

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $169,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython

About the role

  • You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team.
  • Leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
  • Ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
  • Supporting your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
  • Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues and leading in solving them.
  • Supporting the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics.
  • Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team.
  • Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance.

Requirements

  • You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
  • You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
  • You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
  • You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base.
  • Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
  • You have 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonKotlinbackend systemsdistributed systemsAWSMySQLKuberneteshigh quality codetechnical planningcodebase management
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationfeedbackownershipsupportmentorshipquality assuranceproactivity
Certifications
Bachelor's degree