<h5>Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering) </h5><p>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. </p><p>Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to "Operate What They Own" with excellence to protect their customers' experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are: </p><ul> <li>Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance </li><li>Guiding the development of SLOs </li><li>Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process </li><li>Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices </li><li>Engaging in service and architectural conversations </li><li>Recommending observability and alerting configurations </li></ul> <p>The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including: </p><ul> <li>Infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems </li><li>Capacity management, load and chaos testing </li><li>Automation, observability, and configuration management </li><li>Development and product experience </li></ul> <p>The SRE team is seeking motivated software engineers with the experience to build and expand reliability and resilience practices throughout Affirms Engineering organization and beyond. </p><h5>What You'll Do </h5><ul> <li>You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. </li><li>You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. </li><li>You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. </li><li>You will support the operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting "keep the lights on" & on-call efforts. </li><li>You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. </li><li>You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. </li></ul> <h5>What We Look For </h5><ul> <li>You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. </li><li>You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. </li><li>You have 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team </li><li>You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held </li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li><li>Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. </li><li>You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. </li></ul> <p>Base Pay Grade - N </p><p>Equity Grade - 6 </p><p>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. </p><p>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.) In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company). </p><p>CAN base pay range per year: $150,000 - $200,000 </p><p>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. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. </p><p>We're extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: </p><ul> <li>Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents </li><li>Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses </li><li>Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge </li><li>ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount </li></ul> <p>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. </p><p>[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. </p>

<h5>Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Foundations) </h5><p>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. </p><p>Identity Engineering owns the systems responsible for onboarding all consumers and managing their authentication and verification journeys across Affirms product surfaces. In this role, you will need to gain a deep understanding of the business, product and engineering context, and utilize that context to own and deliver high-availability and low-latency systems on the critical paths for all of our products. </p><p><b>What You'll Do</b> </p><ul> <li>You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. </li><li>You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. </li><li>You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. </li><li>You will support the operations and availability of your teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting keep the lights on & on-call efforts. </li><li>You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. </li><li>You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. </li></ul> <p><b>What We Look For</b> </p><ul> <li>You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. </li><li>You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. </li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li><li>Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. </li><li>You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. </li><li>This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field. </li></ul> <p>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.) </p><p>USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000 </p><p>USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000 </p><p><b>Benefits</b> </p><ul> <li>Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents </li><li>Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses </li><li>Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge </li><li>ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount </li></ul> <p>We believe Its 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. </p><p>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. </p>#J-18808-Ljbffr

<h5>Senior Software Engineer (Experimentation Platform) </h5><p>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. The AXP team empowers to make data?driven decisions and enable safe rollouts. We support launches through Feature Flags and enable hypothesis?driven learning through controlled experiments that help grow the business. AXP builds the APIs, systems, and workflows that allow engineers to target, ramp, and measure changes. We believe Simpler is Better and strive to improve our engineers ability to deliver impact without compromising availability. </p><h5>What Youll Do </h5><br> <ul><li>You will own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open?ended problems and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. </li><li>You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design, and analytics, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that consider risks and trade?offs. </li><li>You will proactively identify project, process, technology, or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. </li><li>You will support the operations and availability of your teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting keep the lights on and on?call efforts. </li><li>You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks. </li><li>You will develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. </li><br> </ul><h5>What We Look For </h5><ul><li>4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. </li><li>Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. </li><li>Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design; write high?quality code that is easily understood and used by others. </li><li>Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. </li><li>Ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from team, manager, and stakeholders. </li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. </li><li>Either equivalent practical experience or a bachelors degree in a related field. </li><br> </ul><h5>Base Pay Grade - N </h5><br> <h5>Equity Grade - USA 8 </h5><p>Employees new to affirmative typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affim focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure 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). </p><p>USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000 <br>USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000 </p><p>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. Afirms in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned office. A limited number of roles remain office?based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. </p><h5>Benefits </h5><ul><li>Health care coverage affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents. </li><li>Flexible Spending Wallets generous stipends for spending on technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses. </li><li>Time off competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge. </li><li>ESPP an employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount. </li><br> </ul> <br>#J-18808-Ljbffr

<p>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 Affim. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developers 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 environmenta complex, high-leverage challenge with impact at scale. </p><h5>What Youll Do </h5><br> <ul><li>You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. </li><li>You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. </li><li>You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. </li><li>You will support the operations and availability of your teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting keep the lights on & on?call efforts. </li><li>You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. </li><li>You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. </li><br> </ul><h5>What We Look For </h5><ul><li>This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field </li><li>You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. </li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li><li>Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. </li><li>You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. </li><li>This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field. </li><li>You have experience owning, managing, and building developer environments, if theyre eternal, thats a bonus. </li><br> </ul><h5>Compensation & Benefits </h5><p>Base Pay Grade N <br>Equity Grade 8 <br>Employees new to Affim typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affim focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job?related skills. <br>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.) <br>USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 $240,000 <br>USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 $219,000 </p><h5>Additional Benefits </h5><ul><li>Type of employment: Contract of Employment </li><li>Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle </li><li>Away Days wellness days to take off work and recharge </li><li>Learning & Development programs </li><li>Parental benefits </li><li>Employee Resource & Community Groups </li><li>This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy </li><br> </ul><br> <h5>Remote?First and Work Flexibility </h5><p>Affim 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. Affimers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affim office. A limited number of roles remain office?based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. </p><h5>EEO Statement </h5><p>We believe Its 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. <br>By clicking Submit Application, you acknowledge that you have read Affims 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. <br>[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, Affim will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. </p>#J-18808-Ljbffr

<h5>Overview </h5><p>Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity) at Affirm. Identity Engineering owns the systems responsible for onboarding all consumers and managing their authentication and verification journeys across Affirms product surfaces. The role focuses on delivering high-availability and low-latency systems on critical paths for our products. </p><h5>What You'll Do </h5><ul> <li>Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and support teammates throughout delivery. </li><li>Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics; participate in ideation, articulate technical constraints, and partner on decisions that consider risks and trade-offs. </li><li>Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. </li><li>Support the operations and availability of your teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting on-call efforts. </li><li>Foster a culture of quality and ownership by establishing or improving code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond the team. </li><li>Help develop talent on the team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. </li></ul> <h5>What We Look For </h5><ul> <li>4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. </li><li>Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. </li><li>Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design; write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. </li><li>Ability to make significant changes in a large code base and develop a suite of tools and practices that enable safe changes. </li><li>Ownership of personal growth with proactive feedback from team, manager, and stakeholders. </li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team. </li><li>Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field. </li></ul> <h5>Compensation and Benefits </h5><p>Pay Grade - N; Equity Grade - 8. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, 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 ranges: CA/WA/NY/NJ/CT: $190,000 - $240,000; all other U.S. states: $169,000 - $219,000. Affirm also provides remote-first policies with some roles office-based as needed. </p><p>Benefits highlights include: Health care coverage for you and dependents, Flexible Spending Wallets, generous time off, and ESPP. </p><h5>Work Location and Candidate Experience </h5><p>Affirm is a remote-first company; most roles are remote within the country of employment. We provide an inclusive interview experience and reasonable accommodations during hiring. </p><p>By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge receipt of Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and consent to the collection, processing, and storage of your personal information as described therein. </p><h5>Location </h5><p>San Francisco, CA (for related sample listings) and remote options may apply; actual base pay varies by location and role. </p><p>Seniority level: Mid-Senior level </p><p>Employment type: Full-time </p>#J-18808-Ljbffr

<h5>Overview </h5><p>Senior Software Engineer (Online Storage) at Affirm. The Online Storage team provides a set of managed databases as a platform, used to persist data for all Affirm services. Our platform automates operations and development on services on top of storage systems like AWS Aurora (MySQL), DynamoDB, and S3. We aim to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. </p><p>Affirm is growing fast and we want you to help scale our products to 10x and beyond through building world-class systems that enable Affirm to provide honest financial products which improve lives. You will join a team focused on engineering excellence, customer-centric design, and long-term roadmaps that scale with the business. </p><h5>What youll do </h5><ul> <li>Lead projects toward improving database architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. </li><li>Collaborate with engineers managing Affirms distributed database technologies, particularly AWS Aurora MySQL, Distributed SQL, and expanding to DynamoDB and caching. </li><li>Design, build, and operate durable and strongly consistent database-as-a-service architectures. </li><li>Develop scalable solutions for multi-region deployments, active resharding, and globally available services. </li><li>Work closely with product teams to translate business requirements into robust database solutions. </li><li>Assist partners in achieving better query performance through query optimization and effective schemas. </li><li>Develop and enforce best practices in database design and management, ensuring data integrity, security, and optimal performance. </li><li>Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in transactional databases. </li><li>Participate in on-call rotation and collaborate with SRE to resolve production issues. </li><li>Lead and mentor engineers to align roadmaps with stakeholder needs. </li></ul> <p>You will also have the opportunity to learn bleeding-edge open source technologies as we build the future of Affirms Online Storage platform. </p><h5>What We Look For </h5><ul> <li>Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science with 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership exposure and experience mentoring junior engineers. </li><li>Hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in production. </li><li>Expertise in distributed databases and technologies such as MySQL InnoDB (preferred), Postgres, Spanner, Vitess, TiDB, CockroachDB, etc. </li><li>Solid understanding of distributed database architecture, data modeling, and performance tuning, including SQL tuning. </li><li>Experience in database/table and backup-recovery management. </li><li>Experience with database benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning. </li><li>Familiarity with connection poolers and proxies (e.g., ProxySQL, RDS Proxy, PgBouncer). </li><li>Proficiency in Python or Kotlin (or both). </li><li>Experience with AWS and Kubernetes. </li><li>Experience building software with IaC (Terraform or Crossplane) tooling. </li><li>Exceptional communication skills for engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders. </li><li>Ability to create and triage database alerts, identify root causes, and implement corrective solutions. </li><li>Equivalent practical experience or a related Bachelors degree. </li></ul> <h5>What Youll Learn </h5><p>Join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services company predicated on honesty and trust. Youll tackle challenges of helping a fast-growing company move toward service-oriented architecture, scale, and availability of infrastructural components, while building teams and working cross-functionally. </p><h5>Pay & Benefits </h5><p>Base pay ranges and equity information vary by location and are part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including medical coverage for you and dependents). </p><ul> <li>USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000 </li><li>USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000 </li><li>Health care coverage and other benefits described by the company </li></ul> <h5>Benefits </h5><ul> <li>Health care coverage with premiums paid by Affirm for you and dependents </li><li>Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family forming expenses </li><li>Generous time off and holiday schedules </li><li>Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) at a discount </li></ul> <p>Affirm is remote-first. Some roles may require occasional office presence depending on responsibilities. </p><p><b>EEO]</b> Affirm is an inclusive employer. We provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. For U.S. positions, Affirm will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in line with local laws. </p><p>By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein. </p>#J-18808-Ljbffr

<h5>Distinguished Software Engineer, Architecture (Infrastructure) </h5><p>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. </p><p>In this role, you will be a senior member of Affirms Architecture Group, reporting directly to the Head of Architecture. You will own the architecture, technical roadmap, and delivery outcomes for Affirms Infrastructure domain, spanning the foundational platforms that enable all of engineering. You will also shape Affirms broader technical direction through leadership within the Architecture Group, driving innovation and architectural coherence across the company. </p><p>You will serve as the accountable technical leader for four critical infrastructure areas: </p><ul><li>Developer Productivity: CI/CD, application testing, environments & tooling, and code standards. </li><li>Reliability Engineering: SRE practices, observability platforms, and reliability engineering frameworks. </li><li>Data & Storage Services: online storage, data lakes, streaming infrastructure, and batch systems. </li><li>Online Services: traffic management, capacity planning, and load testing. </li><br> </ul><h5>What Youll Do </h5><ul><li>Drive the long?term technical vision for Affirms Infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer empowerment. </li><li>Lead architectural strategy and roadmap definition in collaboration with domain tech leads and the broader Architecture Group. </li><li>Champion patterns and platforms that maximize developer productivity and system resilience. </li><li>Define and uphold standards for infrastructure design, operational excellence, and quality. </li><li>Partner with Product, Platform, and Engineering leadership to ensure infrastructure investments are aligned with business goals. </li><li>Guide cross?functional teams to deliver foundational services that enable Affirms product engineering at scale. </li><li>Mentor and grow a bench of IC technical leaders across multiple infrastructure domains. </li><li>Foster a culture of rigor, curiosity, and technical excellence across engineering. </li><br> </ul><h5>What We Look For </h5><ul><li>Proven success leading infrastructure architecture for large?scale, distributed systems. </li><li>Deep expertise in at least two of the following domains: developer productivity, reliability engineering, data & storage, online services. </li><li>Strong hands?on knowledge of cloud?native infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP), with AWS expertise preferred. </li><li>Ability to define and execute long?term infrastructure roadmaps that accelerate developer velocity and system resilience. </li><li>Track record of mentoring and developing senior ICs and technical leaders. </li><li>Extensive experience building and operating highly available, performant, and secure systems. </li><li>Effective communicator, capable of engaging both engineers and executives to drive alignment and clarity. </li><li>15+ years of software engineering experience, with prior technical leadership roles. </li><li>Experience in fintech or consumer?facing systems is a plus. </li><li>JVM experience at scale is a plus. </li><li>Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience. </li><br> </ul><h5>Compensation </h5><p>Pay Grade V <br>Equity Grade 21 <br>Employees new to Affirms typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirms focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure that is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job?related skills. <br>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). </p><p>USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $340,000 $375,000 <br>USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $305,000 $340,000 </p><h5>Benefits </h5><ul><li>Health care coverage Affirms covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents. </li><li>Flexible Spending Wallets generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses. </li><li>Time off competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge. </li><li>ESPP An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirms at a discount. </li><br> </ul><p>We believe Its 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. </p><p>By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirms 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. </p>#J-18808-Ljbffr

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