Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Traffic)

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.

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. Whether we’re enabling new ways to pay, ensuring our platforms can scale to the most demanding levels in the industry, or developing seamless servicing experiences, our focus is on solving complex problems through exceptional engineering.

The Mesh Traffic team enables secure, reliable, and observable communication across Affirm’s microservices platform. Our engineers work on the core networking and compute infrastructure to ensure reliable delivery for requests through artifacts like service meshes, proxies, and gateways through cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy. We're always looking for new ways to evolve our platform and improve the architecture through new technologies.

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 r