Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Affirm provides clear and predictable ways for customers to pay over time. The Staff Software Engineer will set technical strategy for the Identity team, guide the development of scalable backend systems, and support identity decisioning, KYC, user lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance across international markets. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, operational ownership, quality standards, and talent development.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
- You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
- You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
- You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
- You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
Skills
- You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
- You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
- You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
- You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
- Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
- 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
- Equity rewards
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
- Remote-first work with flexibility built in
- Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.
- Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.
- All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.
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