Key skills
AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team
- Leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
- Supporting peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle
- Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues
- Supporting the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts
- Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team
- Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
- Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
- 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.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Distributed Systems
- Kotlin
- Kubernetes
- MySQL
- Python
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