Responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team.
Lead engineers on your team to solve open-ended problems.
Ensure that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics.
Advocate for quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards.

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.
Fluency in back end development, and batch processing using technologies like Airflow, Spark, Data Lake and Snowflake.
Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Benefits

100% subsidized medical 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
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

PythonKotlinAWSMySQLKubernetesAirflowSparkData LakeSnowflakebackend development

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationadvocacysupportquality assurancecode reviewdesign standardsmetrics monitoring