Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Search)

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes description paragraphs. We need to identify sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use

for each heading only if there is real content. We must not repeat job title. We need to preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Also remove application instructions. The posting includes: intro paragraph about Affirm, then "What You'll Do" (responsibilities), then "What We Look For" (requirements/qualifications/skills), then "Base Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - 13 Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range..." includes pay ranges, then "Remote-first with flexibility built in", then "Benefits Designed For You". Also mention "USA Pacific base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $230,000 - $290,000 USA Sapphire base pay range (all other U.S. states): $204,00 - $264,000". Note there is a typo: $204,00 missing a digit? Should be $204,000? We'll preserve as given. We need sections: About the role (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (What You'll Do), Requirements (What We Look For), Benefits (Benefits Designed For You), Pay (Base Pay Grade etc). Schedule? Not present. So we omit Schedule. We must not include headings with filler. So we will produce:

About the role

...intro paragraph...

Responsibilities

• ... each bullet from What You'll Do...

Requirements

• ... each bullet from What We Look For...

Benefits

• ... each bullet from Benefits Designed For You...

Pay

... pay details...

We need to ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's extract. Intro paragraph: "At Affirm, we exist 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. As we build Affirm's advertising platform and evolve Marketplace into a best in class shopping destination, the ability to route and discover is one of the greatest levers for consumer experiences. Search is one of the highest impact surfaces, and we are building a new team that will own not just the recommendations and search experiences, but also explore opportunities to improve customer experience, monetization, and merchant value. This team will help make Affirm the definitive destination consumers turn to for discovery, understanding, comparing, and shopping through Affirm, and will also lay the foundation for an agentic platform." That's the About the role. Responsibilities (What You'll Do): list: - You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. - You will collaborate 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. - You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes. - You take 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. - You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. - You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. We need to preserve each as

. Requirements (What We Look For): list: - You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. - You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes. - You have experience developing consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React - You have 2+ years of experience working in search or related recommendation engines - You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. - You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. - You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work. - Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers. - You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. - This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field. We should keep each as

. Note there is a line break after "UI frameworks like React" maybe missing period; keep as is. Benefits (Benefits Designed For You): list: - Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents. - Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you. - Time to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to. - Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount. - We’re committed to providing an inclusive interview process, including accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need support, we’re happy to help. - For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law. Also there is a line: "By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and consent to the use of your personal information as described." That's application instruction/boilerplate; we should remove. Also there is a line: "We’re committed to providing an inclusive interview process, including accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need support, we’re happy to help." That's part of benefits? It's more about interview process; but it's still substantive; we can keep as benefit? It's not exactly benefit but it's part of the posting; we can include under Benefits or maybe under a separate section? The instruction says to include sections only when posting has real specific content. This is about interview accommodations; could be considered part of Benefits or maybe we could put under a generic section? But we only have defined headings; we could put it under Benefits as it's related to candidate experience. However it's not a benefit like health coverage; but we can still include as a bullet under Benefits. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can keep it under Benefits. Pay section: Need to capture: "Base Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - 13 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. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.) USA Pacific base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $230,000 - $290,000 USA Sapphire base pay range (all other U.S. states): $204,00 - $264,000 Remote-first with flexibility built in Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience." We need to preserve all substantive info. However some of that is also about remote work etc. That could be considered Schedule? Not exactly. But we have no Schedule heading; we could incorporate remote work info under Pay or maybe under a separate section like "Work Arrangement"? Not allowed headings. We could include under Pay as extra paragraph. But the instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". So we can have Pay section with the pay details; we can also include remote work info as part of Pay paragraph? Might be odd but acceptable. However we could also create a section "Work Arrangement"? Not in allowed headings. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we cannot create other headings. So we must fit remote work info either into Pay or Schedule. Since Schedule is about work schedule/hours, remote work is not schedule. But we could put remote-first info under Pay as a paragraph about compensation? Not ideal but maybe we can include it under Pay as additional context. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could have Pay section containing all pay-related info plus remote work info. But remote work is not pay; but we have no other place. Could we put it under Benefits? Remote work is a benefit of sorts. Could be considered a benefit (flexibility). The Benefits section already includes health coverage, stipends, time off, ESPP, inclusive interview, arrest record consideration. Remote work could be added as another benefit bullet. That seems more appropriate: remote-first flexibility is a benefit. So we can add a bullet under Benefits: "Remote-first with flexibility built in: Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment; some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience." Thus Benefits section will have those bullets. Now Pay section: just the pay grade and ranges. Let's extract Pay content precisely: "Base Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - 13 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. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.) USA Pacific base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $230,000 - $290,000 USA Sapphire base pay range (all other U.S. states): $204,00 - $264,000" We need to preserve exactly as given, but we can format as a paragraph. Note there is a missing zero in $204,00; we keep as is. Now Benefits bullets: we need to include all from "Benefits Designed For You" plus remote-first bullet. Original Benefits Designed For You bullets: - Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents. - Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you. - Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to. - Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount. - We’re committed to