Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)

About the role

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 Engineering team builds systems that power Affirm’s mission. We take pride in our craft, building reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that touch every part of the business.

The Trust Infra team elevates the security posture of our infrastructure and services by embedding security in everything from provisioning to deployment, improving developer experience through automation, and building guardrails that enable safe, rapid delivery. Artifacts owned by this team include our secrets management system, authentication and authorization, cryptography, certificate workloads, and other core security components within our Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics—participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider 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 on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Deep expertise of Kubernetes resource management, Helm charts, and operator patterns, centered around security workloads.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Proficiency writing high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Experience making significant changes in a large code base and having developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Evidence of taking ownership of your growth by proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Pay

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

• 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

Benefits

• Health care coverage — Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets — generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off — competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP — An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount