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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Developer Environments) Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Developer Environments) role at Affirm Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest. Developer Productivity exists to make work better for every engineer at Confirm. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developers laptop and production, including dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, dependency management, and release engineering. Our tools and platforms enable engineers to ship code quickly, safely, and with confidence. This team supports over 900 engineers working across a broad stack in a hypergrowth Fintech environmenta complex, highleverage challenge with impact at scale. What Youll Do You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve openended 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, and analytics, participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and tradeoffs. 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 teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting keep the lights on and oncall 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 an extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed databases, containerization, and Kubernetes. You have active experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation. 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. This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field. You have experience owning, managing, and building developer environments, if theyre ephemeral, thats a bonus. Location CAN Compensation & Benefits Pay Grade - N Equity Grade - 6 Employees new to Confirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Confirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and jobrelated skills. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Confirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company). CAN base pay range per year: $150,000 - $200,000 Local Additional Benefits Include Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge Learning & Development programs Parental benefits Employee Resource & Community Groups This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy Confirm is proud to be a remotefirst company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Confirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Confirm office. A limited number of roles remain officebased due to the nature of their job responsibilities. Benefits Health care coverage - Confirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Confirm at a discount We believe Its On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. #J-18808-Ljbffr