Transparent financing for modern consumers
Affirm, headquartered in Chinatown, San Francisco, CA, is a leading fintech company specializing in point-of-sale installment loans. With over 21 million consumers and 337,000+ merchants including Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart, Affirm offers flexible payback options ranging from 3 to 36 months. The co...
Affirm offers a remote-first workforce policy, allowing employees to work from anywhere in their home country. Benefits include 18 weeks of paid paren...
Affirm's culture is centered around transparency and consumer empowerment, with a focus on delivering honest financial products. The company actively ...
Affirm • Remote US
Affirm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the Identity Engineering team in building high-availability systems for consumer onboarding and authentication. You'll work with Java and Spring to deliver critical backend solutions. This role requires 5+ years of experience in backend engineering.
You have 5+ years of backend engineering experience, particularly in building production systems that are scalable and reliable. You’ve owned services from design through deployment and have navigated the complexities of debugging distributed systems. Your expertise in Java and Spring is deep, and you have a strong understanding of service architecture, dependency injection, and testing strategies. You thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with product management, design, and analytics to drive project success. You are proactive in identifying and solving project, process, or technology issues, advocating for improvements that enhance team performance and product quality. You foster a culture of quality and ownership within your team, setting high standards for code reviews and design practices.
Experience with identity management systems or consumer authentication processes would be a plus. Familiarity with metrics monitoring and operational support is also beneficial, as you will be responsible for ensuring the availability of your team’s artifacts.
In this role, you will own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems. You will support your peers and stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle, collaborating closely with product management, design, and analytics. Your responsibilities will include participating in ideation sessions, articulating technical constraints, and making decisions that consider risks and trade-offs. You will proactively identify and advocate for solutions to project, process, technology, or business issues, leading efforts to resolve them effectively. Additionally, you will create and monitor metrics to support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts, ensuring that you are prepared for on-call efforts when necessary. You will help cultivate a culture of quality and ownership on your team by improving code review and design standards, advocating for best practices beyond your immediate team.
Affirm provides a supportive environment where you can grow your skills and advance your career. You will have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that impact the way consumers interact with credit. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every requirement, as we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Our remote work policy allows for flexibility, enabling you to balance your professional and personal life effectively.
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