Software Engineer I, Backend (Continuous Delivery)

About the Role

The Continuous Delivery team at Affirm focuses on enabling 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 that help engineers move from idea to production faster, with better safety, consistency, and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Work on tasks contributing to the team's projects and goals with team support.
• Collaborate proactively with the team and stakeholders, providing visibility and dialog regarding risks and trade-offs.
• Balance speed and quality in work to meet business goals while protecting systems from downtime.
• Contribute to team community through growth and development activities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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 interacting with multiple software components.
• Skill in executing solutions by writing clear, easily understood, well-tested, and extensible code.
• Comfort navigating a large codebase, debugging others' code, and providing feedback through code reviews.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration.

Qualifications

• Previous work or internship experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience using Python or Kotlin.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth, proactively seeking feedback.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.