Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity International)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• ▹Support the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics: ideation, articulating technical constraints, and weighing risks and trade-offs
• ▹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, escalating when needed, and supporting keep-the-lights-on & on-call efforts
• ▹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, and leading by example
• ▹Help shape quarterly technical direction, translate team goals into concrete projects, and identify cross-cutting risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities
• ▹Design across system boundaries, drive collaboration with partner teams, and advocate for technical investments that improve long-term execution
• ▹Reduce toil, create useful playbooks, mentor engineers, support new hires and interns, and contribute to high-signal hiring
• ▹On-call rotation is a requirement of this role

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
• ▹Experience defining a technical plan for delivering a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, extensible design; writes high quality, easily understood code
• ▹Proficient at making significant changes in a large codebase, with tools and practices that enable safe changes
• ▹Demonstrated ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, manager, and stakeholders
• ▹Strong verbal and written communication skills to support collaboration with a global engineering team

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle
• ▹Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• ▹Learning & Development programs
• ▹Parental benefits
• ▹Employee Resource & Community Groups
• ▹Health care coverage - full premium coverage for you and your dependents
• ▹Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ▹ESPP - an employee stock purchase plan at a discount

About the company

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 Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience, owning Identity for all markets outside North America and playing a key role in Affirm's international expansion.