Affirm · 23 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
Boise, ID
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $275K/yr
8+ years expAffirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance developer productivity. The role involves setting technical strategy, collaborating across teams, and fostering a culture of quality and ownership while managing operations and availability of systems.
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Responsibilities
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, policies, 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 conducting high quality code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks, and increasing collaboration through practices like pair programming and knowledge sharing
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
Demonstrated mastery of proactively gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers
Extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS (GCP, Azure), distributed Databases, containerization, and Kubernetes
Active experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation
Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
Ability to write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
Comfortable moving from language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to deeply understand how they work
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global and remote engineering team
Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments
Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
Preferred
Experience with ephemeral developer environments
Benefits
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
Company
Affirm
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (104)
2024 (96)
2023 (133)
2022 (179)
2021 (132)
2020 (57)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.57BKey Investors
New York Life InsuranceSixth StreetPGIM Fixed Income
2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2024-12-17Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2024-12-13Post Ipo Debt· $4B
Leadership Team
Max Levchin
Founder & CEO
Robert O'Hare
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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