Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Reliability
$232-310k
Salary dependent on location. Offers ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$232-310k
Salary dependent on location. Offers ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan
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, including at least one of the following: Python,
- Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++, GoLang
- Expertise in synthesizing complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities
- Into clear decisions, and influence product direction
- Ability to communicate decisions and practices to the engineering organization effectively
- At least 5+ years of experience in at least two different SRE organizational structures
- At least 5+ years of experience of hands-on work in infrastructure and scaling distributed systems
- At least 5+ years of technical leadership on SWE and Reliability teams focussed on infrastructure,
- Reliability, and software engineering at scale
- Strong hands-on experience with k8s and AWS in a production environment
- Experience in encouraging a strong engineering culture and improving reliability in a growing
- Company, including the ability to work closely with other senior and staff engineers to drive
- Change
- Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders
- Deep knowledge of incident management, post-incident review, and incident analysis
- Expertise in developing and implementing effective Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineer to build and evangelize Reliability practices throughout Affirm’s Infrastructure team and beyond
- Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small yet crucial team, building out the SRE Central Model that creates reliability best practices, tooling, frameworks, and then drives their adoption across Affirm. Our Vision is to enable all teams to “operate what they own” with excellence, while providing white-glove support for critical services that deliver our most impactful products to Affirm’s customers
- In coordination with senior ICs and stakeholder teams, create and champion a long-term technical roadmap for the creation and adoption of reliability practices across Affirm
- Promote culture of ownership, curiosity, and data-driven decision making
- Elevate architecture, technical design, and code review with resiliency as a first class citizen, coaching team members on effective design and code reviews with the customer journey as the primary focus
- Influence and provide reliability guidance to Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that improve customer experience
- Drive and simplify cross functional investigations around complex issues involving people, software, and systems
- Engage with product management to understand their needs, accelerate feature development velocity, and enable improved insights into their service while improving operational reliability
- Support the growth of the Infrastructure organization by hiring, coaching, and supporting senior
- Engineers in technical contributor roles
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor within your team to enable them to undertake challenges across multiple technical domains
- Provide leadership in the implementation of incident management and reliability principles
- Focus on the human interaction with reliability systems to enable quicker incident resolution
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.
Kirsty
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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