Staff Backend Software Engineer (Marketplace/App Experience)

Join Affirm as a Staff Backend Software Engineer, where you will play a key role in building and evolving our advertising platform and marketplace. You will set the technical strategy for your team, collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle, and foster a culture of quality and ownership. With a remote-first workforce, generous time off, and a focus on mental health and development, Affirm offers a supportive and flexible work environment.

• Establecer la estrategia técnica para el equipo en un horizonte de tiempo de un año, y ayudar al equipo a vincularla con proyectos críticos que impactan en el negocio.
• Colaborar con equipos en el ciclo de desarrollo del producto, asegurando la sostenibilidad técnica, los riesgos y los compromisos.
• Actuar como un multiplicador de fuerza para el equipo a través de la definición y defensa de soluciones técnicas y procesos operativos.
• You have 2+ years of experience working in search or related recommendation engines
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
• You have experience developing consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• 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
• 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 have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers