Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Deal Reporting

🕒 February 27

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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

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale. • Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics. • Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions. • Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards. • Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. • Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. • Knowledge of Spark and its inner workings is a must. • Knowledge on task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a good to have. • Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. • Ability to write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. • Thrive in ambiguity and comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work. • 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 benefit • Employee Resource & Community Groups