[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Affirm

Mar 15, 2025 - Affirm is hiring a remote Staff Software Engineer. 💸 Salary: $200,000 - $275,000 per year. 📍Location: USA.

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Role Description

This role involves setting technical strategy and ensuring operational excellence within the Traffic Engineering team at Affirm.

You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Qualifications

You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
You have experience developing fault-tolerant, multi-region online backend systems and an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
You have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or other cloud providers like Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.
You have familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We use technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX, but we are always looking for new technologies to adopt.
You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Requirements

Base Pay Grade: P
Equity Grade: 13
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000
Location: Remote - US

Benefits

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

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Staff Software Engineer @Affirm

Software Development

Salary 💸 $200,000 - $275,000 per year	Remote Location USA
Job Type unspecified	Posted Mar 15, 2025

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