Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Service Infrastructure
€71.7-107.5k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
Job no longer available
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
€71.7-107.5k
+ 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
- At least 6 years of industry experience, including 4+ years as DevOps
- Proven coding skills, preferably Python, Golang or Kotlin
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
- Experience in public cloud (preferably AWS)
- Design and development of highly available systems (99.99%+ SLA)
- Infrastructure as a code - preferably Terraform
- Mentoring and enabling other engineers
- Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.x. Prometheus, ELK)
- Cost management
Desirable
- Developing multi-region cloud solutions
- Solid experience in cloud networking - both on cloud and within Kubernetes
- Experience with databases and optimizing database usage within infrastructure
- Good knowledge of SDLC tooling, including CICD systems, artifact and container repositories
What the job involves
- This is a mission critical role of ensuring our large scale infrastructure systems are healthy, automated and designed to scale
- You will be partnering closely with the product and platform engineering teams to maintain high availability and reliability SLAs for Affirm services
- Analyse, review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements
- Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure
- Optimise Kubernetes clusters and resources within
- Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as a code
- Secure business continuity and compliance needs through secure and resilient infrastructure
- Provide self-service solutions for Affirm engineers to streamline their work
- Write high-quality, testable, and easily digestible code that will serve as best practice templates
- Review other’s code and designs and provide constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
- Design, create and expand monitoring and visibility systems to ensure the stability of our team's services
- Serve as a technical resource across engineering, especially in guiding product development teams in areas of performance, reliability, and scalability
- Provide daily and on-call support to other engineering teams
- Optimise Affirm systems and code for cost efficiency, security and compliance
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.
Serving over 21 million consumers and over 300,000 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
-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
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & 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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