Senior Staff Software Engineer (Repayments)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Drive the evolution of our Repayments platform with a focus on extensibility, robustness and performance
• - Draft, review and refine technical specification documents
• - Participate in architectural reviews and closely collaborate with other tech leads in the Direct-To-Consumer department
• - Help create the engineering strategy for the Repayments Nexus group based on the broader engineering strategy and informed by the Repayments product strategy
• - Define the technical roadmap for the Repayments Nexus group
• - Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and robust solutions
• - Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures
• - Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data
• - Take an active role in mentoring engineers, and the processes that support team growth and efficiency

Required Skills

• - 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
• - Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
• - A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
• - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• - Must be proficient in asynchronous communication – written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc.
• - Excellent project management skills – high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively
• - Business impact focus, pragmatic approach to delivering projects on time and safely
• - Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Risk, Analytics etc.
• - Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus
• - Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers

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