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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Virtual Cards Platform)
Affirm
San Diego (CA)
Remote
USD 200,000 - 250,000
Full time
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Job summary
An established industry player is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead backend development for its innovative Virtual Cards Platform. This role is pivotal in shaping the technical strategy and enhancing the scalability of the platform, which empowers consumers to utilize Affirm's financial products seamlessly across various merchants. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend systems, particularly with Python or Kotlin, and will thrive in a collaborative environment. Join a remote-first company that values transparency and offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive health coverage and flexible spending stipends, creating a supportive atmosphere for personal and professional growth.
Benefits
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in backend systems design and development.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy and manage business-impacting projects.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure technical sustainability.
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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.
- 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.
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
[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 levelMid-Senior level
- Employment typeFull-time
- Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
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