Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Developer Productivity
CA$150-200k
More information about location
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$150-200k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years experience in software development or related fields
- Experience in creating and improving fundamental engineering processes
- Enthusiasm about providing a great experience to other software engineers
- Fluency developing and debugging in one or more programming languages
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, BuildKite, cloud computing, and related tools
- Familiarity with build, test, and deploy automation, using gradle, and kind
- Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus
- Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers is a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes, docker, and AWS EKS is a plus
- You understand the trade-offs between build and buy
- You prefer automated processes over manual ones
- Eagerness to learn new problem space, tools, and technology
What the job involves
- Developer Productivity engineering’s purpose is to make work better for every engineer at Affirm. This group is focused on development tooling, pre-production environments, and everything that makes working in a complex technical environment easier and more efficient
- We manage everything between the developer’s laptop all the way to production–everything in between including ephemeral development environments, CI/CD pipeline and workflow, test automation framework, dependency management, and release engineering
- We help developers write code and release into production as quickly and as safely as possible. Effectively serving a 800+ strong engineering group working across a wide array of technologies in a hypergrowth Fintech environment is a fascinating challenge
- Build scalable developer productivity solutions for Affirm Engineering
- Design and develop innovative automated solutions that enable developers to stay productive as they continue to add product features and functionalities
- Create best-in-industry solutions for build, CI, release workflow, deployment automation, and environment management
- Grasp, analyze the usage of, and drive improvements to developer journey
- Build tools that measure operational performance of all aspects of developer experience
- Collaborate with developers, architects and release engineering to keep overall development process efficient
- Stay up-to-date of industry trends for developer efficiency and cross-pollinate those ideas and processes with Affirm’s development processes
- Be a critical part of Affirm’s Infrastructure Platform Engineering team, the backbone of Engineering at Affirm
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company values
- People Come First
- No Fine Print
- It's On Us
- Simpler is Better
- Push the Envelope
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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