Senior Software Backend Engineer, Affirm
Storage Services Engineering
€85-115k
+ESPP
More information about location
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€85-115k
+ESPP
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of development experience
- Experience leading design and execution and delivery of backend software projects. Hands-on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
- Experience with designing and owning highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems using cloud storage services. Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure , GCP etc
- Experience with building and operating data privacy related engineering services and infrastructure is a plus
- Strong understanding of CS fundamentals such as Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems, algorithms, and data structures
- Experience building software for database administration or experience with devops for databases is a plus
- Working knowledge of OLAP systems like Snowflake, Redshift , BigQuery and Table formats like Apache Iceberg , HUDI, Delta Lake is a plus
- Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset
- At least one of:
- Experience working in Database, SRE, or Infrastructure teams in the past, or have operated a distributed data storage system such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, or others
- Experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We use technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX, but we are always looking for new technologies to adopt
What the job involves
- You will collaborate with other teams - including product, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering
- Leading and mentoring engineers to define and execute on a roadmap aligned with stakeholder needs
- Design, build, and a highly durable and strongly consistent cloud based storage solutions
- Design, build and own an infrastructure platform that provides critical support for operating database systems at scale
- Design and build structured storage solutions that solve for privacy first storage solutions
- Collaborate with other teams on their database needs and provide continuous guidance on design and architecture
- Participating in an on-call rotation and collaborating with other teams such as SRE to solve production issues
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
- You will also have the opportunity to learn bleeding edge open source technologies like Kubernetes and Vitess as we build the future of Affirm’s data storage platform
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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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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