Software Engineer II, Backend (Decisions Orchestration)

Affirm is a financial services company focused on providing transparent, flexible payment solutions. The Software Engineer II, Backend will design and implement APIs, microservices, and checkout systems for Affirm’s financial products while improving system performance, reliability, and engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Work with technical leaders in the team to design and implement insightful forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems
• Actively own components of checkout systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
• Collaborate with engineers within our team and across the organization to build the next generation of the checkout platform
• Learn and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the checkout platform

Requirements:

• You enjoy working with product and engineering leaders to develop detailed project definitions, and drive technical decisions within your team
• You have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale
• You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
• You are empathetic to the user experience and thoughtful about what we can do to make it better
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Python
• Kotlin
• RPC
• Redis
• MySQL
• AWS
• Github