The opportunity
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
What you'll do
You will own and deliver quarterly technical goals for the Communications: area, collaborating with teammates to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems across messaging infrastructure.
You will design and evolve reliable backend services for high-volume: communications across multi-region, multi-tenant environments, including orchestration, delivery, preferences, templates, and observability.
You will collaborate with product management, design, analytics, security,: and engineering partners throughout the product lifecycle, articulating technical constraints and balancing customer impact, risks, and trade-offs.
You will design, implement, and operate resilient integrations with external: messaging vendors, balancing reliability, latency, cost, and compliance.
You will proactively identify and solve project, process, technology, or: business issues that affect scalability, developer experience, and operational resilience.
You will support the operations and availability of your team’s services by: defining service-level objectives and metrics, improving alerting and incident response, and participating in on-call efforts.
What they're looking for
- You will foster quality and ownership by improving design, testing, code: review, rollout, and operational standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, mentorship,: and technical direction, and leading by example.
- On-Call Rotation: There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.
- You have 5+ years of experience in software development or engineering, with: a deep understanding of system design and architecture.
