Senior Software Engineer @ 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 engineering’s purpose is to make work better for every engineer at Affirm. This group is focused on development tooling, pre-production environments, and everything that makes working in a complex technical environment easier and more efficient. We manage everything between the developer’s laptop all the way to production–everything in between including ephemeral development environments, CI/CD pipeline and workflow, test automation framework, dependency management, and release engineering. We help developers write code and release into production as quickly and as safely as possible. Effectively serving a 800+ strong engineering group working across a wide array of technologies in a hypergrowth Fintech environment is a fascinating challenge.

What You’ll Do

Build scalable developer productivity solutions for Affirm Engineering
Design and develop innovative automated solutions that enable developers to stay productive as they continue to add product features and functionalities
Create best-in-industry solutions for build, CI, release workflow, deployment automation, and environment management.
Grasp, analyze the usage of, and drive improvements to developer journey
Build tools that measure operational performance of all aspects of developer experience
Collaborate with developers, architects and release engineering to keep overall development process efficient
Stay up-to-date of industry trends for developer efficiency and cross-pollinate those ideas and processes with Affirm’s development processes
Be a critical part of Affirm’s Infrastructure Platform Engineering team, the backbone of Engineering at Affirm

What We Look For

4+ years experience in software development or related fields
Experience in creating and improving fundamental engineering processes
Enthusiasm about providing a great experience to other software engineers
Fluency developing and debugging in one or more programming languages
Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, BuildKite, cloud computing, and related tools
Familiarity with build, test, and deploy automation, using gradle, and kind
Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus
Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers is a plus
Experience with Kubernetes, docker, and AWS EKS is a plus.
You understand the trade-offs between build and buy
You prefer automated processes over manual ones
Eagerness to learn new problem space, tools, and technology

Pay Grade - N

Equity Grade- 6

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.)

CAN base pay range per year: $150,000-200,000

#LI-Remote

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.

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:

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

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.

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Senior Software Engineer

Developer Productivity

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