Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering) Affirm – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Overview 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. Responsibilities Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance Guiding the development of SLOs Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices Engaging in service and architectural conversations Recommending observability and alerting configurations What You’ll Do You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” on-call efforts. You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving 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. What We Look For You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. You have 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team. You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held. You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. Compensation and Benefits Base Pay Grade - N Equity Grade - 6 Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). Eligible employees may also receive equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company). CAN base pay range per year: $150,000 - $200,000 Affirm is remote-first. The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some roles may require occasional office work depending on responsibilities. Benefits We offer competitive benefits anchored to our core value of people come first. Key highlights include: Health care coverage — Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents Flexible Spending Wallets — generous stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses Time off — vacation and holiday schedules to rest and recharge ESPP — employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares at a discount We provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need during the hiring process where required by law. By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr