Senior Software Engineer (Developer Productivity)

Developer Productivity engineering’s purpose is to make work better for every engineer at Affirm. This group is focused on development tooling, pre-production environments, and everything that makes working in a complex technical environment easier and more efficient. We manage everything between the developer’s laptop all the way to production–everything in between including ephemeral development environments, CI/CD pipeline and workflow, test automation framework, dependency management, and release engineering. We help developers write code and release into production as quickly and as safely as possible. Effectively serving a 800+ strong engineering group working across a wide array of technologies in a hypergrowth Fintech environment is a fascinating challenge.

What You'll Do

• Build scalable developer productivity solutions for Affirm Engineering
• Design and develop innovative automated solutions that enable developers to stay productive as they continue to add product features and functionalities
• Create best-in-industry solutions for build, CI, release workflow, deployment automation, and environment management.
• Grasp, analyze the usage of, and drive improvements to developer journey
• Build tools that measure operational performance of all aspects of developer experience
• Collaborate with developers, architects and release engineering to keep overall development process efficient
• Stay up-to-date of industry trends for developer efficiency and cross-pollinate those ideas and processes with Affirm’s development processes
• Be a critical part of Affirm’s Infrastructure Platform Engineering team, the backbone of Engineering at Affirm

What We Look For

• 4+ years experience in software development or related fields
• Experience in creating and improving fundamental engineering processes
• Enthusiasm about providing a great experience to other software engineers
• Fluency developing and debugging in one or more programming languages
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, BuildKite, cloud computing, and related tools
• Familiarity with build, test, and deploy automation, using gradle, and kind
• Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus
• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes, docker, and AWS EKS is a plus.
• You understand the trade-offs between build and buy
• You prefer automated processes over manual ones
• Eagerness to learn new problem space, tools, and technology

Pay Grade - N

Equity Grade- 6

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

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.)

CAN base pay range per year: $150,000-200,000

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Last updated on Aug 22, 2024