Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Merchant Data Platform

🕒 March 11

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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

• Owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. • Supporting peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics. • Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues, advocating for them, and leading in solving them. • Driving detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance. • Supporting operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. • Contributing to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process. • Mentoring engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing. • Owning the availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers. • Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin. • Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. • Expert at synthesizing complex business products and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software. • Comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews. • Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. Writing high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. • Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. • Demonstrates ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. • Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle • Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge • Learning & Development programs • Parental benefits • Employee Resource & Community Groups