Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Trust and Safety)

📋 Description

• Setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it
• Collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product
• Acting as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical
• Taking ownership of your team's operations and availability by ensuring you have the right
• Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design
• Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages
• Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a
• Ability to write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Comfort in ambiguity, and comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the
• Mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.

🎁 Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) letting you buy Affirm stock at a discount