Senior Staff Software Engineer

January 8

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Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

📋 Description

• 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 is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a key role in defining the technical direction and foster innovation across the engineering organization. • You’ll work closely with engineering leaders, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to create solutions that are scalable, reliable, and high-performing. • You'll help shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. • This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset. • You will be responsible for building large-scale distributed systems, and developing the overall technology strategy for a domain within our engineering org.

🎯 Requirements

• Passionate: Passionate about Affirm's Mission: "Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives" • Technical: Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language. We primarily use Python, but members of our team have backgrounds in a wide range of technologies • Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers • Humble: You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown • User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience • Experienced: Background building real-time distributed web services, developing systems in web application frameworks and implementing highly available data storage

🏖️ Benefits

• 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