Principal Software Engineer (Developer Platform)

Company: Affirm
Company: Affirm
Location: Remote Canada
Posted on: 2023-04-20 21:46
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. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.  Do you enjoy building products and providing tools that improve the experience of your colleagues? The Developer Productivity Engineering team may be for you. Our purpose is to make the development experience better for every engineer at Affirm. We provide development tooling, pre-production environments, and everything else that makes writing, testing, building and deploying software easy and efficient. We strive to provide outstanding inner development loop experiences and a safe, efficient PR to Production outer development loop. What You'll Do Study the code writing and debugging experiences of your fellow developers and suggest areas for improvement Craft innovative solutions that enable developers to stay productive as they continue to add product features and functionalities Pair with engineering teams to improve their use of productivity tools and uplift software development skills Stay on top 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 Platform Engineering team, the backbone of Engineering at Affirm What We Look For Prior work pairing with multiple product development teams a year on multiple projects Experience in crafting and improving fundamental engineering processes Passion about providing an extraordinary experience to other software engineers Tool builders and sharers who strive to reduce toil and improve efficiency Proficiency developing and debugging in one or more programming languages. Location - Remote Canada #LI-Remote Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of hire. We have a simple and transparent remote-first grade-based compensation structure. Offer amounts within the range are based on a number of factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Across the broader organization, certain roles are eligible for equity awards upon hire, promotion, tenure milestones and for performance. We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:  Health care coverage - Affirm 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 Affirm at a discount We believe It’s 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. By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read the Affirm Employment Privacy Policy for applicants within the United States, the EU Employee Notice Regarding Use of Personal Data (Poland) for applicants applying from Poland, the EU Employee Notice Regarding Use of Personal Data (Spain) for applicants applying from Spain, or the Affirm U.K. Limited Employee Notice Regarding Use of Personal Data for applicants applying from the United Kingdom, and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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