The opportunity
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.
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 work closely with and contribute to other teams: including product, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering (SRE).
You will design and build components of a scalable datastore platform,: contributing to the overall Affirm's goals, and leveraging experience in creating multi-region, horizontally scalable, globally available, and high-performance datastore solutions.
You will develop control planes for management, self service of hundreds of: databases at scale automating schema/data migrations, disaster recovery, sharding and performance tuning.
You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle,: focusing on database solutions, 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.
What they're looking for
- You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you: have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, 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.
- You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend: systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
