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What this posting asks for

Level: Lead / staff — The title says "Staff".

Main responsibilities

• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-im…
• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical susta…
• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and a…
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond you…
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
• What We Look For
• You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• You have experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical.

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “The Ledger Engineering team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to a hi…” · “Ledger Engineering works with our finance partners to support everything from closing our monthly books to annual audits.” · “You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond you…”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Teamwork and collaboration Core
  In the posting: “Outside of accounting, we partner with the Capital Markets team to help open our business to investors who require a similar forensic level of reporting.” · “You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical susta…” · “Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “We bridge the technical gap between data, strategy, and the thorough level of accounting detail required to operate a publicly-traded company.” · “Outside of accounting, we partner with the Capital Markets team to help open our business to investors who require a similar forensic level of reporting.” · “You have experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical.”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Adaptability and learning Core
  In the posting: “You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.” · “Remote-first with flexibility built in” · “Our benefits reflect our commitment to care, transparency, and flexibility.”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
• Attention to detail and quality Core
  In the posting: “We are passionate about building robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems that enable us to be on-time and precisely accurate in every financial inter…” · “You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and a…” · “You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond you…”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
• Ownership and accountability Core
  In the posting: “You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and a…” · “You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond you…”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and …” · “Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Stakeholder management Core
  In the posting: “We are passionate about building robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems that enable us to be on-time and precisely accurate in every financial inter…” · “Ledger Engineering works with our finance partners to support everything from closing our monthly books to annual audits.”
  Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
• Communication Supporting
  In the posting: “You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.

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