Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Online Infrastructure
$232-310k
Salary dependant on location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$232-310k
Salary dependant on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Proficient in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration technologies
- Experience with cloud-native traffic management, networking, and security concepts at scale (Istio, Cilium, eBPF)
- Experience in designing and creating cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies
- Solid CS fundamentals and practical coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services with Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other cloud providers
- Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Istio, and Nginx, but we are open to exploring new technologies
- Have an enthusiastic vision for leading technical teams and mentoring other engineers
- You prefer leveraging, enhancing, and contributing to Open Source solutions rather than starting from scratch
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- The Online Infrastructure team is the backbone of Affirm engineering
- Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Infrastructure team. You will shape and own Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving our computing workloads
- Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across the platform engineering and product engineering organizations
- Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools to handle new Affirm products and business needs that can securely scale across millions of users and their transactions
- Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team, promoting best practices in design, coding, and testing
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company values
- People Come First
- No Fine Print
- It's On Us
- Simpler is Better
- Push the Envelope
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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