About the role

Role overview

Join Affirm as a Staff Backend Software Engineer (Marketplace/App Experience). You will help build and evolve Affirm’s advertising platform and marketplace, set the technical direction for your team, and partner across teams throughout the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Define and own the team’s technical strategy with a ~1-year horizon, aligning it to critical business-impacting projects.
Collaborate across product development teams to ensure technical sustainability, manage risks, and deliver on commitments.
Act as a force multiplier by defining and defending technical solutions and operational processes.
Lead delivery of major features/system components and support deprecation of existing functionality via solid technical and execution planning.

Requirements

2+ years experience in search or related recommendation engines.
Proven experience building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
Experience building consumer experiences using React.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Ability to work in ambiguity, moving from low-level implementation details up to system architecture.
8+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale, using Python or Kotlin.
Demonstrated ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
Writes high-quality code that others can easily understand and use.

Nice-to-haves

Not explicitly stated.

About Affirm

Affirm is a fintech company focused on building financial products and services for consumers, including shopping and payment-related experiences. The role centers on engineering efforts to evolve large-scale platforms such as advertising and marketplaces.