Description
Affirm's Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience. When a customer chooses Affirm, one of the first steps is an identity check, and our ability to make the right decision directly impacts conversion, revenue, fraud exposure, and regulatory compliance.
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
You will 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.
You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
You 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.
You will 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.
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
The ideal candidate has an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
The ideal candidate has experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
The base pay range for this position is CAD $181,000 - $241,000 per year.
Benefits include 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and equity rewards.