Senior Software Engineer (Repayment UX)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs.
• - Influence strategic and tactical decisions related to our product, platform and success metrics.
• - Identify stakeholders, gather their needs and opinions, advocate for ideas and initiatives, and create a common understanding where all voices are heard.
• - Partner with engineers, other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems.
• - Collaborate with cross-functional partners like product managers, designers and analysts to deliver an outstanding, high quality experience to our users.
• - Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow.
• - 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.
• - Rigorously test the code we write as a team and support it as part of a sustainable on-call rotation.
• - Take active part in improving our processes, flow of information and work culture.
• - Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions.
• - Develop and review the technical content and requirements of the interview process.

Required Skills

• - 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production-quality backend services
• - Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns – Python, Flask, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others
• - Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown – e.g. deep complexity, ambiguous problems, unfamiliar technologies
• - A track record of influencing other peoples’ work through architecture design, code review, cross-functional collaboration, domain expertise, coaching other engineers, or other means
• - Prior experience building, launching and maintaining complex systems
• - Bonus points for experience with large-scale systems in a service-oriented architecture
• - Prior experience collaborating with mobile and/or web frontend software engineers
• - Experience leading full-stack projects is a plus
• - Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English

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