Software Engineer - Backend

September 17

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Affirm

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 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. • At the Merchant Engineering team, we make products that are a joy for developers to integrate, thus making it easy for Merchants and Partners to unlock the value of being part of the Affirm network. Our goal is to build a flexible, scalable, robust platform to provide the best possible purchasing experience be it online or in-store. • We are seeking a Software Engineer II to build out financial products and features providing new levels of accessibility and flexibility to our users. You will architect, design, and implement new API and microservice interfaces to manage a merchant's lifecycle, analytics and interactions with Affirm. You will also use your technical skillset to find opportunities to improve the performance and reliability of the systems that drive the user journey through purchasing with Affirm.

Requirements

• 2-4+ years of experience as a software engineer • You have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale • Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems (sentry.io, rollbar, chronosphere, kibana) • Experience with building Python, Kotlin APIs is a plus • Experience with mySQL or ElasticSearch is a plus • Experience building thoughtfully designed, highly performant interfaces • Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience (ours, our stakeholders', and our company's) as we do the design of our engineering systems. • You enjoy leading technical architecture discussions and drive technical decisions within your team and beyond • You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing. If anything, you trend towards over-communication

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