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, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
Support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
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, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
A 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.
Experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Benefits

Health insurance
100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonKotlinAWSMySQLKubernetesAirflowSparkData LakeSnowflakebackend development

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationfeedbackownershipmentorshipadvocacyquality assurancetechnical writing