Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Developer Environments)

Affirm

119d • $169,000 - $240,000

About The Position

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. Developer Productivity exists to make work better for every engineer at Affirm. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developer’s laptop and production, including ephemeral dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, dependency management, and release engineering. Our tools and platforms enable engineers to ship code quickly, safely, and with confidence. This team supports over 900 engineers working across a broad stack in a hypergrowth Fintech environment—a complex, high-leverage challenge with impact at scale.

Requirements

• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, distributed Databases, containerization, and Kubernetes.
• Experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines, configuration management, and automation.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments.
• Experience with ephemeral developer environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle.
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Parental benefits.
• Employee Resource & Community Groups.
• Employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees