Software Engineer, Backend; Code to Environments

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)

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.

Developer Productivity exists to make work better for every engineer  mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developer’s laptop and production, including ephemeral dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, dependency management, and release engineering. Our tools and platforms enable engineers to ship code quickly, safely, and with confidence. This team supports over 900 engineers working across a broad stack in a hypergrowth Fintech environment—a complex, high-leverage challenge with impact at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through the definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own 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” and on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by conducting high quality code reviews and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks, increasing collaboration through pair programming and knowledge sharing.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Growth and impact trajectory that shows proactive gathering and iteration of feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using AWS (GCP, Azure), distributed databases, containerization, and Kubernetes. Experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, Git Hub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality through defined technical and execution plans. High quality, readable code.
• Ability to work in ambiguity, from language idioms to the architecture of large systems, to deeply understand how they work.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global and remote engineering team.
• Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments; experience with ephemeral environments is a bonus.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - 13
• Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
• USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000
• USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000

Location: Remote - US

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some roles may require occasional in-person work at an Affirm office.

• Health care coverage — Affirm covers all premiums for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets — stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off — vacation and holidays to rest and recharge
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) — buy shares at a discount

We’re committed to an inclusive interview experience for all. Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process.

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