Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long timescale, tying it to critical, business-impacting projects
• ▹Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood
• ▹Act as a force-multiplier for the team through defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes
• ▹Own the team's operations and availability, ensuring the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place
• ▹Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them through writing and tech talks
• ▹Develop talent on the team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

Requirements

• ▹8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin
• ▹Extensive track record developing highly available distributed systems using 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 or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, through a technical and execution plan; writes high-quality, easily understood code
• ▹Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable moving from low-level language idioms to the architecture of large systems
• ▹Growth and impact trajectory demonstrating mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers
• ▹Strong verbal and written communication skills supporting collaboration with a global engineering team
• ▹Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Equity rewards
• ▹Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
• ▹100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• ▹Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ▹ESPP employee stock purchase plan
• ▹Remote-first, work almost anywhere within the country of employment

About the company

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, offering buy-now-pay-later without hidden fees or compounding interest.