Job Description
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. 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. Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. Support the operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed and supporting "keeps the lights on" & on-call efforts.
Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standard for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures. Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data. Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion.
On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.
About Affirm
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.