Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Developer Productivity
€117-147k
+ An employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€117-147k
+ An employee stock purchase plan
More information about 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, with proven success leading large-scale, multi-team initiatives across products and teams with presence in multiple regions
- Technical Vision and Leadership: Ability to define technical roadmaps and strategies that impact multiple teams and drive business results
- Experience Contributing to Platform and Infrastructure Programs: Expertise in designing, building, and scaling automation related frameworks and infrastructure. Experience in test related infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling is a major plus
- Strong Communication Skills: Proven ability to collaborate and influence both technical and non-technical teams, with a focus on asynchronous communication such as technical specs, RFCs, and project plans
- Hands-On Experience in Key Technologies: Deep expertise in Python, Kotlin, or React, with a focus on testing best practices. Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff Engineer to contribute to Developer Productivity, with a focus on Test Platform Engineering. Our team’s flagship platforms provide lightweight test frameworks for every layer, synthetic identities, test data seeding, endpoint mocking, and overall testing infrastructure.
- These tools enable Affirm Engineering Teams to perform automated, deterministic testing with consistency across locations. Additionally, we support our partner teams in conducting exploratory testing, allowing us to evolve our ways of working collaboratively
- In this role, you will actively collaborate on the multi-year roadmap, design technical solutions for the hardest problems, and drive cross-team, cross-domain initiatives. You will work closely with the Engineering Director and the team to enhance quality standards and processes, while representing the team in broader organizational efforts
- Lead Multi-Year Strategy: Define and execute the technical strategy for Test Platform Engineering, ensuring it aligns with broader organizational goals and business impact
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead complex, cross-team initiatives, making critical technical decisions while fostering collaboration across engineering, product, and design teams
- Influence Roadmaps: Work closely with stakeholders to align roadmaps across multiple domains, ensuring that test infrastructure supports product scalability and reliability
- Mentorship and Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide engineers to elevate technical standards and quality, particularly in designing robust testing frameworks
- Build World-Class Systems: Architect scalable test systems that enable rapid growth, ensuring Affirm’s infrastructure can scale 10x while maintaining the highest standards of quality and automation
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
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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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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