Key skills
AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSparkAnalyticsProduct ManagementCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- 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 setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
- You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Distributed Systems
- Kotlin
- Kubernetes
- MySQL
- Python
- Spark
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