Affirm is looking to build scalable, reliable, and high-performing solutions to drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives in the Discovery Domain engineering organization.
Requirements
- Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language
- Experience with Python
- Background building real-time distributed web services
- Experience developing systems in web application frameworks
- Experience implementing highly available data storage
Responsibilities
- Build a multi year technical strategy for Discovery domain focused on product roadmap, availability and scale.
- Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new products and features to be built
- Architect and build the next version of our data-processing pipelines
- Create 3rd party developer APIs and tools
- Analyze/debug performance issues across distributed services
- Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers
Other
- Passionate about Affirm's Mission: 'Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives'
- Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers
- Has the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
- Cares about the details in the user experience
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
