Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal Reporting)

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 Deal Reporting team is responsible for building our critical capital partner integrations, as well as services to automate funding processes safely and reliably.

We partner with Product and Capitals Markets teams to understand and implement complex financial structures, integrations and reporting. We are looking for a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to help empower Deal Reportings first international team, and build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure to power the funding of every Affirm loan.

What Youll 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, polcities, 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 setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.

· You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

· “On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement”.

What We Look For

· You have 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.

· You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

· Knowledge of Spark and it’s inner workings is a must.

· Knowledge on task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a good to have.

· You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.

· You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.

· Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from yo