Staff Software Engineer, Affirm

Service Infrastructure

€83.9-125.8k

Plus an employee stock purchase plan

AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Kotlin
Terraform
ELK
Prometheus
Golang
Expert level
Remote in Spain

More information about location

Affirm

POS installment loans

Open for applications

Affirm

POS installment loans

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPersonal financePaymentsSaaS

Open for applications

€83.9-125.8k

Plus an employee stock purchase plan

AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Kotlin
Terraform
ELK
Prometheus
Golang
Expert level
Remote in Spain

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPersonal financePaymentsSaaS

Company mission

To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.

Role

Who you are

  • We are looking for engineers with strong coding or operations background and passion for scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, who pride themselves in creating self-healing resilient and secure infrastructure
  • We are looking for Cloud engineers that can work together as a DevOps team and provide best solutions for other engineers at Affirm
  • At least 9 years of industry experience, including 5+ years as DevOps
  • Proven coding or scripting skills, preferably Python, Golang or Kotlin
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
  • Experience in public cloud (preferably AWS)
  • Design and development of highly available systems (99.999%+ SLA)
  • Infrastructure as a code - preferably Terraform
  • Mentoring and enabling other engineers
  • Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.x. Prometheus, ELK)
  • Cost management
  • Coaching, public speaking, managing communities

Desirable

  • Developing multi-region cloud solutions
  • Solid experience in cloud networking - both on cloud and within Kubernetes
  • Experience with databases and optimizing database usage within infrastructure
  • Good knowledge of SDLC tooling, including CICD systems, artifact and container repositories

What the job involves

  • We are looking to hire Staff DevOps Engineer in the Service Infrastructure team
  • This is a mission critical role of ensuring our large scale infrastructure systems are healthy, automated and designed to scale
  • You will be partnering closely with the product and platform engineering teams to maintain high availability and reliability SLAs for Affirm services
  • Analyse, review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements
  • Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure
  • Optimise Kubernetes clusters and resources within
  • Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as a code
  • Secure business continuity and compliance needs through secure and resilient infrastructure
  • Provide self-service solutions for Affirm engineers to streamline their work
  • Write high-quality, testable, and easily digestible code that will serve as best practice templates
  • Review other’s code and designs and provide constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
  • Design, create and expand monitoring and visibility systems to ensure the stability of our team's services
  • Serve as a technical resource across engineering, especially in guiding product development teams in areas of performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Provide daily and on-call support to other engineering teams
  • Optimise Affirm systems and code for cost efficiency, security and compliance
  • On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement”

Our take

Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.

Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.

Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Sep 2020

$500m

SERIES G

Apr 2019

$300m

SERIES F

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

  • Spending wallets
  • Supportive communities
  • Remote-first workforce
  • Generous time off
  • Health benefits
  • Mental healthcare
  • Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
  • We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
  • We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
  • Learning & development

Company values

  • People Come First
  • No Fine Print
  • It's On Us
  • Simpler is Better
  • Push the Envelope

Company HQ

Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.

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