Principal Software Engineer - Traffic Management

February 28

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Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

📋 Description

• 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. • At Affirm, we’ve been very successful in our mission in delivering honest financial products that improve lives. In order to further this mission as we scale, we are looking for a Principle Engineer focused on developing world class traffic management capabilities for Affirm. • Set the technical vision and strategy for the next generation of traffic management, capacity planning, and load testing capabilities and practices at Affirm. • Safely build and expand our traffic management capabilities by applying a deep understanding of traffic management: gentle retries, circuit breakers, load shedding, and load prioritization. • Collaborate with the broader engineering organization to understand service load: from day to day operations to peak events. Then develop and rollout next generation capacity models and load testing frameworks. • Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization • Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas. • This role requires an engineer who can work at multiple levels: effectively convey a clear vision, influence senior leadership to focus on strategic investments, and lead fellow engineers to achieve impactful results.

🎯 Requirements

• Has been responsible for traffic management, load testing or capacity planning at an organization with hundreds of millions of users. • Extensive experience in designing and implementing traffic shaping, cluster management, and load shedding systems at scale • Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects. • Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and partner with staff and senior staff software engineers. • Exceptional leader who can mentor high potential engineers earlier in their career. • Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery. • Strong communicator who effectively lays out their technical vision to the broader engineering organization. • 15+ years software engineering experience. • Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) is a plus. • Excited about both our mission to deliver honest financial products and to do it by building a meritocracy.

🏖️ 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