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Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Online Infrastructure team is the backbone of Affirm engineering. We provide the Kubernetes-based platform, traffic engineering, and supporting services that run all of Affirm - enabling management, configuration, provisioning, and operation of our computing infrastructure. We deliver a platform for infrastructure and product engineering teams to run their workloads at scale. Our customers are not only Affirm users, but also other engineering teams at Affirm. We aspire to provide simple and self-serve interfaces that are used daily by every engineer at Affirm.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Online Infrastructure), you will:
- Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Infrastructure team. You will shape and own Affirm's strategy for managing and serving our computing workloads.
- Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across the platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
- Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools to handle new Affirm products and business needs that can securely scale across millions of users and their transactions.
- Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team, promoting best practices in design, coding, and testing.

What we look for:
- 10+ years of software development experience.
- Proficient in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration technologies.
- Experience with cloud-native traffic management, networking, and security concepts at scale (Istio, Cilium, eBPF)
- Experience in designing and creating cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies.
- Solid CS fundamentals and practical coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services with Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala).
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or other cloud providers.
- Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus. Our stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Istio, and Nginx, but we are open to exploring new technologies.
- Have an enthusiastic vision for leading technical teams and mentoring other engineers
- You prefer leveraging, enhancing, and contributing to Open Source solutions rather than starting from scratch.

Affirm offers competitive benefits, including health care coverage, flexible spending wallets, generous time off, and an employee stock purchase plan. We are proud to be a remote-first company, allowing you to work from almost anywhere within the country of employment.

Senior Staff Software Engineer role at Affirm, leading the Online Infrastructure team to shape and manage computing workloads at scale.

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Online Infrastructure)

Affirm, a company reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering for their Trust and Safety Experience team. This remote position in the US offers an exciting opportunity to lead a high-performing team responsible for critical user-facing components and backend APIs.

As a Manager of Software Engineering, you'll oversee the development of user experiences for sign-in/signup, authentication, fraud detection, and mitigation flows across various platforms. Your team will be crucial in delivering identity and fraud decisions for users across web, iOS, and Android platforms.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with Product Managers and Analytics teams, creating long-term technical roadmaps, coaching team members, establishing OKRs, mentoring engineers, and building a strong engineering culture. You'll also play a vital role in hiring and growing talent within the organization.

The ideal candidate should have at least 3 years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams and 7+ years in software development roles. Proficiency in backend languages like Python and front-end frameworks such as React or AngularJS is essential. Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS) and data frameworks (Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Airflow) is highly valued.

Affirm offers a competitive salary range of $178,000 - $228,000 per year, along with excellent benefits including fully covered health insurance for employees and dependents, flexible spending wallets, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The company promotes a remote-first culture, allowing for flexibility and work-life balance.

Join Affirm to lead a team at the forefront of fintech innovation, working on cutting-edge technologies and making a significant impact in the financial industry. If you're passionate about building scalable systems, mentoring talent, and driving technological advancements in a fast-paced environment, this role offers an excellent opportunity to further your career in a dynamic and growing company.

Lead high-performing engineering teams at Affirm, developing critical user experiences and backend systems for trust and safety in fintech.

Manager, Software Engineering

Affirm is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Repayments Nexus, a group based in Europe that owns the end-to-end repayments consumer experience. This role requires high technical capability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset. The successful candidate will drive the evolution of the Repayments platform, focusing on extensibility, robustness, and performance.

Key responsibilities include:
- Drafting and reviewing technical specifications
- Participating in architectural reviews
- Creating engineering strategy for the Repayments Nexus group
- Partnering with product and business teams
- Building APIs and data models for micro-service and event-driven architectures
- Mentoring engineers and supporting team growth

The ideal candidate will have:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong understanding of distributed systems
- Excellent communication and project management skills
- Business impact focus and pragmatic approach to project delivery
- Passion for cross-functional collaboration
- Python/Kotlin development experience (preferred)
- Experience with AWS or other cloud providers

Affirm offers competitive compensation and benefits, including:
- Base pay range: 415,000 zł - 515,000 zł per year
- Equity rewards
- Flexible spending wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle
- Wellness days off
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental leave
- Employee Resource & Community Groups

Join Affirm in building a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. This remote position offers the flexibility to work from anywhere in Poland, with occasional office visits as required.

Senior Staff Software Engineer role at Affirm, driving the evolution of the Repayments platform with a focus on extensibility, robustness, and performance.

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