Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Virtual Cards Platform)

Affirm; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the backend development of their Virtual Cards Platform. This role involves shaping technical strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring system reliability and performance. With a focus on quality and ownership, you'll drive the development of scalable backend systems using technologies like Python, AWS, and Kubernetes. Join a forward-thinking organization that values transparency and offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive health coverage and flexible spending options. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing and launching backend systems.
• Expertise in building highly available distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy and lead critical projects.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure technical sustainability.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Distributed Systems

Technical Strategy

Code Review

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a Related Field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Virtual Cards Platform)

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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.

The Virtual Cards (VCN) Platform Engineering team powers all of Affirm's products that depend on one-time-use cards. Virtual cards enable consumers to leverage Affirm’s financial products at effectively any merchant that accepts card payments, supporting online ecommerce, physical instore, and digital wallet integrations such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. By providing the systems that bridge Affirm and external credit networks like Visa, the VCN Platform team is critical in enabling increased scale of Affirm’s network.

What You'll Do

• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting 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 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• You have experience in the card network landscape, building and launching card products or adjacent payments related technologies.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
  
  

Base Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - 13

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

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

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000

Location: Remote - US

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• 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
  
  

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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