Software Engineer I, Backend

Role Overview

• With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals.
• You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work.
• You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime.
• You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities.

Requirements

• You have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using one of Python or Kotlin.
• You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code.
• You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Distributed Systems
• Kotlin
• Kubernetes
• MySQL
• Python

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