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 Engineering team builds systems that power Affirm’s mission. We take pride in our craft, building reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that touch every part of the business.
The Communications team builds and modernizes the highly available platform that delivers billions of customer messages reliably and on time across the customer journey. As a senior backend engineer, you will shape multi-region, multi-tenant infrastructure, APIs, and vendor integrations that help product teams communicate with customers at scale.
Responsibilities:
- You will own and deliver quarterly technical goals for the Communications area, collaborating with teammates to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems across messaging infrastructure.
- You will design and evolve reliable backend services for high-volume communications across multi-region, multi-tenant environments, including orchestration, delivery, preferences, templates, and observability.
- You will collaborate with product management, design, analytics, security, and engineering partners throughout the product lifecycle, articulating technical constraints and balancing customer impact, risks, and trade-offs.
- You will design, implement, and operate resilient integrations with external messaging vendors, balancing reliability, latency, cost, and compliance.
- You will proactively identify and solve project, process, technology, or business issues that affect scalability, developer experience, and operational resilience.
- You will support the operations and availability of your team’s services by defining service-level objectives and metrics, improving alerting and incident response, and participating in on-call efforts.
- You will foster quality and ownership by improving design, testing, code review, rollout, and operational standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, mentorship, and technical direction, and leading by example.
Requirements:
- You have 5+ years of experience in software development or engineering, with a deep understanding of system design and architecture.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, Kotlin, or similar.
- You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, DynamoDB, and Kubernetes.
- You have experience designing multi-region, multi-tenant platforms with strong isolation, scalability, failure recovery, and data-consistency guarantees.
- You have experience integrating with third-party communications or messaging vendors and designing abstractions that account for different capabilities, rate limits, and failure modes.
Benefits:
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental benefits
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
- Health coverage at no cost: 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: Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount