Senior Software Engineer (Comms Platform)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources
• - Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
• - Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
• - Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
• - Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other engineers, both inside and outside the immediate team
• - Foster a respectful and supportive environment that embraces the diversity of the team
• - Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
• - Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others

Required Skills

• - 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring senior engineers
• - Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns (e.g: Kotlin, Python, Flask, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others)
• - Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP etc;
• - Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
• - Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience — ours, our stakeholders', and our company's — as we do the design of our engineering systems
• - You are not dogmatic and believe in solving problems with the right tool for the job
• - Experience providing reviews on teammates code and designs, providing constructive feedback to meet a high bar of quality and help others grow
• - Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication
• - Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow. Ambiguity is where you thrive

Benefits

• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• - Learning & Development programs
• - Parental leave
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups
• - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• - 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