# Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering)

**Company**: Affirm
**Location**: Remote Canada
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $181,000 - $241,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter,giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Ledger Engineering team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to a highly regulated industry's real-world accounting controls.

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.

We look for candidates with:

- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.

- Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.

- Experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical.

- Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Benefits:

- Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.

- Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.

- Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.

- Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Kotlin
- AWS
- MySQL
- Spark
- Kubernetes
- financial systems
- ledgering
- treasury

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