Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Growth Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Growth Platform): Building core systems and tools that drive user acquisition, engagement, and lifecycle growth at Affirm with an accent on personalized communications, intelligent experimentation, and scalable services. Focus on designing APIs, event-driven services, and experimentation frameworks that reach millions of customers across thousands of merchants.

Location: Remote Canada

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 CAD

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.

What you will do

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics by 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 by setting or improving code review and design standards.
• Help develop talent by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Culture & 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.