Staff Software Engineer (Test Platform Engineering)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Partner with stakeholders to align on roadmaps, strategy, and vision for the Test Platform Engineering team.
• - Lead technical decisions, initiatives, and roadmaps within the Developer Productivity team and beyond.
• - Collaborate with other technical leads, management, and stakeholders across the organization to design and implement solutions that extend beyond the team’s scope and require cross-functional collaboration.
• - Lead and mentor engineers, helping them to grow and succeed.
• - Provide guidance to engineers across the organization to improve their code quality and testing skills.
• - Work closely with teammates from engineering, product, and design backgrounds to craft best-in-class systems and processes around test frameworks and infrastructure, with the ultimate goal of enabling them to build the best financial products.
• - On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

Required Skills

• - 7+ years of software development experience.
• - Strong sense of ownership with a proven track record of successfully driving large cross-functional technical programs.
• - Prior experience in designing, building, launching, and maintaining consumer-scale products.
• - Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams, both written and spoken, with proficiency in asynchronous communication methods such as written tech specs, RFCs, wiki entries, project plans, etc.
• - Proficiency in either back-end or front-end development, with a particular focus on testing.
• - Working experience in Python, Kotlin, and/or React is a significant advantage.
• - Experience in building or contributing to test automation frameworks and infrastructure is highly desirable.
• - Familiarity with practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus.
• - A passion for improving consumer financial services.

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