Backend Software Engineer (Batch Developer Experience)

Join Affirm, a company dedicated to building reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that power our mission. As a Backend Software Engineer on the Batch Developer Experience team, you will work on streamlining workflows, strengthening testing, and improving the reliability of our critical batch workloads. You will collaborate with product management, design, and analytics, and contribute to a sense of community on your team. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, generous time off, and a range of health and wellness benefits.

• Collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers to build tools and systems that streamline workflows and improve the reliability of batch workloads.
• Break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.

• You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
• You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews