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 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 help shape the evolution of the Recoveries platform, driving: cross-team technical initiatives that optimize recovery strategies, enable flexible customer-facing experiences, and strengthen the reliability and scalability of our financial and partner integrations.
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, 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.
What they're looking for
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
- You have a total of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- You are proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at: scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
- You have experience designing and operating correctness-sensitive batch,: asynchronous, or data-processing systems, including scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling.
