Software Engineer I, Backend (Continuous Delivery)

About the Role

The Continuous Delivery team at Affirm is focused on making software development simpler and faster across the company. They own much of the path between a developer's laptop and production, including developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, dependency management, and release engineering. The team's charter is to enable engineering teams to release independently through strong automation, standard patterns, predictable rollouts, resilient recovery mechanisms, and less manual toil. This role is positioned to help solve Affirm’s engineering challenges by scaling developer productivity, particularly in an AI-enhanced software development lifecycle. The team builds and improves platforms, workflows, and guardrails to help engineers move from idea to production faster, with better safety, consistency, and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals with team support.
• Collaborate and communicate proactively with your team and stakeholders, sharing progress and discussing risks and trade-offs.
• Balance speed and quality to meet business goals while protecting systems from downtime.
• Contribute to team community through growth and development activities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience using Python or Kotlin.
• Familiarity with the building blocks of distributed systems.
• Experience with technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Ability to take a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components.
• Proficiency in writing clear, easily understood, well-tested, and extensible code.
• Comfort navigating a large codebase, debugging other engineers' code, and providing feedback through code reviews.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth, proactively seeking feedback.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• Previous work or internship experience in backend systems development and launch.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Proven ability to translate problems into well-engineered solutions.
• Skilled in writing testable and maintainable code.
• Adept at code reviews and providing constructive feedback.
• Self-driven in personal and professional development.
• Excellent communication skills.