Senior Software Engineer, Full-stack (trust & Safety)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada · Remote · Checkout

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Trust & Safety) at Affirm, a fintech company focused on buy now, pay later services. The role involves owning and delivering quarterly goals, leading engineers, collaborating with product management, and ensuring the operation and availability of team artifacts. Requires experience in designing and launching backend systems at scale using technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, as well as shipping web apps with frameworks like React or Vue. Emphasis on ownership, quality code, and technical planning.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
  • Python
  • Kotlin
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Shipping web apps
  • React
  • Vue
  • Defining a technical plan for feature/system delivery
  • Writing high quality code
  • Making significant changes in a large code base
  • Developing tools and practices for safe code changes
  • Ownership of growth
  • Proactively seeking feedback
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • high-availability
  • low-latency
  • owning and delivering quarterly goals
  • leading engineers on your team through ambiguity
  • solve open-ended problems
  • support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts
  • creating and monitoring metrics
  • escalating when needed
  • supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
  • foster a culture of quality and ownership
  • setting or improving code review and design standards
  • advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
  • You have a total of 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • You are experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • You have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
  • 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.