[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Mesh Traffic @Affirm

Role Description

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The Engineering team builds systems that power Affirm’s mission. We take pride in our craft, building reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that touch every part of the business.

The Mesh Traffic team enables secure, reliable, and observable communication across Affirm’s microservices platform. Our engineers work on the core networking and compute infrastructure to ensure reliable delivery for requests through artifacts like service meshes, proxies, and gateways through cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy.

What You'll Do:

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience owning and operating cloud-native distributed infrastructure in networking or compute.
• Deep expertise of Kubernetes resource management, Helm charts, and operator patterns, centered around networking workloads.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Requirements

• Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Develop a suite of tools and practices that enable safe changes in a large code base.
• Take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback.

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.