Affirm is looking to simplify and accelerate software development across the company by setting technical strategy, collaborating across teams, and ensuring technical sustainability and quality.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS (GCP, Azure), distributed Databases, containerization, and Kubernetes
- active experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation
- experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
- writing high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
- experience with technologies like AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed Databases, containerization, and Kubernetes
- experience with pipeline tools like Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions
Responsibilities
- setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
- collaborating 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
- 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 conducting high quality code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks, and increasing collaboration through practices like pair programming and knowledge sharing
- helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
- owning, managing, and building developer environments
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global and remote engineering team
- ability to thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to deeply understand how they work
- ability to provide feedback and guidance, and lead by example
- ability to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office
