Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm

• Has been responsible for load testing or capacity planning at an organization with millions of users and uneven/seasonal traffic
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing cluster management, and load testing at scale
• Successful track record leading and delivering multi-quarter, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated ability to successfully collaborate with other senior staff engineers and architects across many teams
• Exceptional leader who can mentor high potential engineers earlier in their career
• Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery
• Strong communicator who effectively lays out their technical strategy to their engineering organization
• 12+ years software engineering experience
• Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) is a plus
• Excited about both our mission to deliver honest financial products and to do it by building a meritocracy

• At Affirm, we’ve been very successful in our mission in delivering honest financial products that improve lives. In order to further this mission as we scale, we are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer focused on developing world class capacity management and load testing capabilities for Affirm
• Set the technical strategy for the next generation of capacity planning and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm
• Collaborate with the broader engineering organization to understand service load: from day to day operations to peak events. Then develop and rollout next generation capacity models and load testing frameworks
• Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization
• Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas
• This role requires an engineer who can work at multiple levels: effectively convey a clear vision, influence senior leadership to focus on strategic investments, and lead fellow engineers to achieve impactful results

• 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

Total funding: $1.1bn

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.