Affirm
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
Affirm, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)
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
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 ephemerals, 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-leverage 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 working 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 the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are 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 reviews and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing, tech talks, and practices such as 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
8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Growth and impact trajectory showing mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross‑functional peers.
Extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed databases, containerization, and Kubernetes. Experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan, writing high‑quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
Comfortable thriving in ambiguity, moving from language idioms to the architecture of large systems to deeply understand how they work.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global and remote engineering team.
Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments; fractional experience with ephemerals is a bonus.
Position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Base Pay Grade
- P
Equity Grade
- 13
Employees new to
Affirm
typically come in at the start of the pay range.
Affirm
focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job‑related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
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
Affirm is proud to be a remote‑first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
Benefits
Health care coverage –
Affirm
covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for technology, food, 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.
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance,
Affirm
will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read
Affirm 's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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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 ephemerals, 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-leverage 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 working 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 the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are 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 reviews and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing, tech talks, and practices such as 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
8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Growth and impact trajectory showing mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross‑functional peers.
Extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed databases, containerization, and Kubernetes. Experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan, writing high‑quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
Comfortable thriving in ambiguity, moving from language idioms to the architecture of large systems to deeply understand how they work.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global and remote engineering team.
Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments; fractional experience with ephemerals is a bonus.
Position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Base Pay Grade
- P
Equity Grade
- 13
Employees new to
Affirm
typically come in at the start of the pay range.
Affirm
focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job‑related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
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
Affirm is proud to be a remote‑first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
Benefits
Health care coverage –
Affirm
covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for technology, food, 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.
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance,
Affirm
will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read
Affirm 's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
#J-18808-Ljbffr