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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

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.

📋 Description

• Build and operate core platform capabilities: Design and implement platform features that enable engineers across Affirm to build, deploy, and operate data applications at scale • Develop integrations: Build and maintain integrations between the platform and internal systems • Strengthen data access and governance: Design and operate secure data access patterns across the platform's analytical infrastructure • Automate toil and unlock self-service: Identify recurring support patterns and build the automation and tooling to make them self-service • Improve observability and incident response: Build telemetry, alerting, and log infrastructure for diagnosing and resolving issues • Support platform operations: Participate in on-call coverage, triage production incidents across platform services • Contribute to the emerging platform roadmap: Help design and build next-generation platform capabilities • Raise the engineering bar: Set and hold high standards in code review, design, operational readiness

🎯 Requirements

• Analytical Data Platform Depth: Hands-on experience operating a cloud analytical data platform (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar) • Container and Deployment Expertise: Experience building and operating containerized applications — Docker image management, CI/CD pipeline design (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar) • Platform and Developer Tooling: Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure that makes other engineers more productive • Integrations and Networking: Comfort building integrations between systems — REST APIs, OAuth/OIDC, webhook ingestion, secrets management • Backend Engineering Fundamentals: Proficiency in Python and SQL for building reliable, maintainable platform services • Operational Ownership: Strong operational instincts — you instrument your systems, write runbooks, own your alerts, and treat on-call burden as a design constraint from day one • Agentic and AI-Ready Data Tools: Familiarity with or interest in semantic layer design, LLM-integrated platform workflows • Communication and Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication to work across teams

🏖️ 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