Tech Stack

Description

You will act as a technical leader building the lifecycle-orchestrator service for Affirm's merchant platform, improving availability and modernizing the codebase while mentoring other engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a backend software engineer
• Strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design, distributed systems, and architectural impact on performance
• Proficiency with data models, API design (HTTP and RPC), state machines, event-driven architecture, and database design
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proficient in async communication like tech specs and ADRs
• Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems (AWS, gRPC, Snowflake, Kotlin, Python, MySQL, Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

• Design expand the backbone of the platform to scale to hundreds of thousands of merchants globally
• Design and align scope of work with other teams to deliver cross-team projects
• Mentor other engineers to ensure their development growth
• Partner with Engineering Manager and Team Lead to drive and execute long-term vision
• Execute technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful approaches