Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering)

About the Position

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The Ledger Engineering team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to a highly regulated industry's real-world accounting controls. We are passionate about building robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems that enable us to be on-time and precisely accurate in every financial interaction we have both with our consumers and institutional finance partners.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering) to join our team and contribute to our audit-grade ledger platform.

Responsibilities

• Setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and helping your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle by working with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Acting as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Taking ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Fostering 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.
• Helping develop talent on your team 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 in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

We Offer

• Competitive base pay range: $204,000 - $290,000 per year (depending on location).
• Equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending.
• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
• Generous Flexible Spending Wallets for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

About the Company

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. We believe it’s on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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