About the company
Affirm exists for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
- Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics
- 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
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards
- Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
- Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable backend data pipelines and batch processing systems using Spark, Airflow, or similar distributed frameworks
- Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component
- Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
Conditions
- Remote-first with flexibility built in
- USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $195,000 - $255,000
- USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $173,000 - $233,000
- Health coverage at no cost, spending stipends, flexible time off, ESPP