Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

Join the Powered by Affirm (PBA) team to build the APIs and solutions that drive all of Affirm’s integrations with Enterprise Merchants and Partners, reinventing credit to be more honest and friendly.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, aligning it with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Contribute to the entire API lifecycle, including designing, developing, testing, maintaining, and evolving our APIs.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, manage risks, and understand trade-offs.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team by defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability, ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting for on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through technical and execution plans.
• Ability to write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Thrive in ambiguity, comfortable moving from low-level language idioms to large system architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.