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. The Software Engineer I will work collaboratively with teams to develop and deliver critical experiences in the Affirm app, focusing on user discovery and credit engagement.
Responsibilities:
- 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:
- Previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using one of Python or Kotlin
- Familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
- Previous work or internship designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- 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
- Comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
- Experience demonstrates that you take 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
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field