Affirm is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a key role in defining the technical direction and foster innovation across the Discovery Domain engineering organization. You’ll collaborate with engineering leaders, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to build scalable, reliable, and high-performing solutions. You'll help shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset. You will be responsible for building large-scale distributed systems, and developing the overall technology strategy for the Discovery domain within our engineering org. 

Discovery domain focuses on building features that bring in new users, engage existing ones, encourage repeat use of Affirm products, and provide value to our customers within the app and marketplace. We own systems like search, read-optimized merchant and consumer data, marketing, and marketplace tooling that provide Affirm consumers a personalized and segmented way to discover and activate Affirm consumer-facing products.

What You'll Do Build a multi year technical strategy for Discovery domain focused on product roadmap, availability and scale.  Partner with the architecture team at Affirm to guide architectural choices within the Discovery domain.  Influence or make product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver customer value quickly. Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new products and features to be built Architect and build the next version of our data-processing pipelines Create 3rd party developer APIs and tools Analyze/debug performance issues across distributed services Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers What We Look For Passionate: Passionate about Affirm's Mission: "Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives" Technical: Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language. We primarily use Python, but members of our team have backgrounds in a wide range of technologies Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers Humble: You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown  User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience Experienced: Background building real-time distributed web services, developing systems in web application frameworks and implementing highly available data storage This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

 

Base Pay Grade - R

Equity Grade - 15

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $260,000 - $310,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000

 

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