Affirm
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
Affirm, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
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Affirm .
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.
Developer Productivity Developer Productivity exists to make work better for every engineer at affirm. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developer’s laptop and production, including dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, dependency management, and release engineering. Our tools and platforms enable engineers to ship code quickly, safely, and with confidence. This team supports over 900 engineers working across a broad stack in a hypergrowth Fintech environment—a complex, high‑leverge challenge with impact at scale.
What You’ll Do
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 conducting high quality code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing, tech talks, and by increasing collaboration through practices like pair programming and knowledge sharing.
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
What We Look For
You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered proactively gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross‑functional peers.
You have an extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed databases, containerization and Kubernetes. You have active experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of technical and execution plans. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to deeply understand how they work.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global and remote engineering team.
You have experience owning, managing, and building developer environments, if they’re ephemeralic, that’s a bonus.
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Compensation Base Pay Grade: P Equity Grade: 13 USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 – $275,000 USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 – $250,000
Location Remote – US. Targeting candidates who can work in the U.S. by time zone.
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.
Other benefits: monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
EEO Statement Affirm is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
role at
Affirm .
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.
Developer Productivity Developer Productivity exists to make work better for every engineer at affirm. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developer’s laptop and production, including dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, dependency management, and release engineering. Our tools and platforms enable engineers to ship code quickly, safely, and with confidence. This team supports over 900 engineers working across a broad stack in a hypergrowth Fintech environment—a complex, high‑leverge challenge with impact at scale.
What You’ll Do
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 conducting high quality code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing, tech talks, and by increasing collaboration through practices like pair programming and knowledge sharing.
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
What We Look For
You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered proactively gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross‑functional peers.
You have an extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed databases, containerization and Kubernetes. You have active experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of technical and execution plans. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to deeply understand how they work.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global and remote engineering team.
You have experience owning, managing, and building developer environments, if they’re ephemeralic, that’s a bonus.
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Compensation Base Pay Grade: P Equity Grade: 13 USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 – $275,000 USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 – $250,000
Location Remote – US. Targeting candidates who can work in the U.S. by time zone.
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.
Other benefits: monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
EEO Statement Affirm is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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