Senior Software Engineer - Capacity and Cloud Economics Engineering

October 10

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Affirm

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 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. • We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s optimizing cloud infrastructure & distributed systems and has experience with scale to join our Capacity & Cloud Economics Engineering team. • We enable Affirm to build and scale our Infrastructure globally in an engineering efficient, developer friendly, cost-effective, resilient, performant and secure manner and ensure that Affirm can uphold our SLA commitments. • Our work ranges from developing and maintaining a distributed load-testing framework, scaling for the holiday season, developing capacity models, reducing our infrastructure costs, capacity tuning and having fun along the way!

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. • You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. • You are experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. • You have experience with load testing frameworks like Locust or a similar framework • 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.

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