Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

Affirm; Regina; Remote; CAD 206,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects and ensure quality in software delivery. The role involves high-level collaboration with stakeholders and active participation in the development lifecycle. Candidates should have extensive experience in backend systems and strong communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary range of $150,000 - $200,000 and a fully remote work environment.

Benefits

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing and launching backend systems.
• Experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers in delivering quarterly goals.
• Collaborate on product development and technical constraints.
• Monitor metrics and support on-call efforts.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Site Reliability Engineering

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

Responsibilities

• Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance


• Guiding the development of SLOs


• Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process


• Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices


• Engaging in service and architectural conversations


• Recommending observability and alerting configurations

What You’ll Do

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.


• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.


• You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.


• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” on-call efforts.


• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.


• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.


• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.


• You have 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team


• You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held


• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.


• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.


• YouR experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.


• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Base Pay and Benefits

Base Pay - N

Equity - 6

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).

CAN base pay range per year : $150,000 - $200,000

Affirm is remote-first. Most roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some roles may require working from an Affirm office occasionally.

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents


• Flexible Spending Wallets - stipends for spending on Technology, Food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses


• Time off - vacation and holiday schedules allowing time off to rest and recharge


• ESPP - employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares at a discount

We believe it’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process.

For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Affirm will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records as required by local ordinances.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

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