Senior Software Engineer (Backend, PBA - Growth)

Role Overview

Senior Software Engineer on Affirm’s Powered by Affirm (PBA) - Growth team. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, and ensure successful delivery with a strong culture of quality and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly team goals and guide engineers through open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Analytics to support the product development lifecycle.
• Proactively identify and drive resolution of issues across project, process, technology, and business domains.
• Foster team quality and ownership; provide feedback and guidance to develop talent.

Requirements

• 4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Experience defining technical plans for significant features or system components with simple, extensible design.
• Write high-quality, readable code used by others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Demonstrated ownership of growth; proactively seek feedback from teammates, managers, and stakeholders.
• Ability to make significant changes in a large codebase, using tools/practices to do so safely.
• Track record building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience on platform/growth initiatives within a Powered-by model (PBA).