Top Engineering Jobs in New York City, NY

Develop and maintain well-tested, extensible software that supports Affirm’s team projects and business goals. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, navigate and debug large codebases, participate in code reviews, communicate risks and trade-offs, and balance delivery speed with system quality and reliability. New graduates will receive mentorship and work across teams and technology stacks in a hybrid early-career program.

Own backend engineering goals for Consumer Engineering, lead delivery of scalable systems, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, improve reliability and code quality, resolve technical and business issues, support on-call operations, and mentor engineers.

Own quarterly engineering goals, lead backend engineers through ambiguous problems, collaborate with product and analytics partners, improve system reliability and availability, monitor operational metrics, establish quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires designing and launching highly available distributed backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, while driving technical planning and safe changes across large codebases.

Develop and launch reliable backend systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Break projects into deliverable phases, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, monitor system metrics, support availability and on-call operations, debug code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to team growth and interviewing. The role requires 1.5+ years of software engineering experience and strong communication skills.

Lead technical strategy and execution for Affirm’s account management team, building secure, scalable fullstack systems and customer account security experiences. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; establish quality, monitoring, testing, and operational standards; support availability and on-call practices; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain scalable backend platforms for capital orchestration, transaction reconciliation, collateral movement, data pipelines, and business workflows. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, analysts, and business stakeholders to design systems, write tested code, improve reliability, and deliver projects incrementally. Support production operations through monitoring, metrics, debugging, code reviews, and on-call responsibilities.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS compute platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, shared components, infrastructure automation, workload safety policies, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-service workflows. The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and participates in on-call incident response.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Affirm’s high-volume observability platform. Design telemetry pipelines and sampling strategies, improve reliability and cost efficiency, integrate observability into AI-assisted development, and drive platform adoption across engineering teams. Remain hands-on while mentoring six engineers, leading cross-functional initiatives, establishing engineering standards, and overseeing monitoring, alerting, on-call operations, and system availability.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.