Software Engineer, Affirm
Full Stack, Checkout Experience
$142-210k
Salary varies by location; +ESPP (Employee stock purchase plan)
POS installment loans
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POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$142-210k
Salary varies by location; +ESPP (Employee stock purchase plan)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an engineer who is as passionate about the mission of Affirm as we are
- This person tolerates ambiguity, is a self-starter and can remove blockers by collaborating independently with teammates to get to a solution
- This person enjoys some mob programming, appreciates the need to build consensus through technical writing, and both welcomes and seeks out recurring one-on-one’s within and outside of their team to extend their collaborative reach
- This person seeks to understand the modern web and how to build for it
- You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- You have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue
- You have experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- 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
What the job involves
- One of Affirm’s stated growth pillars is to Win at Checkout since it directly impacts our volume and is the final step before our customers receive a loan from Affirm to make their purchase
- The Checkout Experience engineering team supports this pillar by both optimizing the existing product experience as well as building new product capabilities
- Our team builds with craft, quality, and passion to help Affirm expand into new markets, show up on more merchant sites, and increase how much and how often people pay with Affirm
- We are a full stack team building consumer-facing user experiences
- We seek not only to craft every pixel with care so as to delight our users, but also to respond within seconds to server and client availability issues affecting our customers
- We are as obsessed about animations smoothness, kilobytes shipped to the client, and WCAG as we are about comprehensible client contracts, asynchronous data fetching, and downtime minimization
- With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work
- You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs
- You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
- You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process
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.
Kirsty
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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