Senior Staff Software Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new products and features to be built
• - Architect and build the next version of our data-processing pipeline
• - Create 3rd party developer APIs and tools
• - Analyze/debug performance issues across distributed services
• - Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers

Required Skills

• - Passionate about Affirm''s Mission: ''Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives''
• - Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language
• - Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers
• - You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
• - Cares about the details in the user experience
• - Background building real-time distributed web services, developing systems in web application frameworks and implementing highly available data storage

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