Responsibilities
- setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
- 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.
- act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
- 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.
- 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.
- help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- proficiency in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- proficiency in developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React, React Native or Vue.
- experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
- write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
- 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.
- strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
Team
Structure: The Marketplace Experience team sits within Affirm’s Direct-to-Consumer organization and owns the core discovery and evaluation surfaces that help shoppers find the right merchant and financing option for their needs. Our scope includes search, deals, and merchant detail experiences, which are high-traffic, highly visible entry points that directly influence shopper trust, engagement, and downstream conversion. We work at the intersection of consumer experience, merchant strategy, and platform capabilities, partnering closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and dependent platform teams.
Additional Information
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.
