Principal Software Engineer, Affirm
Infrastructure Platform Engineering
$230-340k
Salary dependent on location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$230-340k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires an engineer who can work at multiple levels: effectively convey a clear vision, influence senior leadership to focus on strategic investments, and lead fellow engineers to achieve impactful results
- Have built and managed infrastructure platforms serving hundreds of engineers and millions of customers
- Successful track record leading and delivering multi-year, highly complex engineering infrastructure projects
- Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and partner with staff and senior staff software engineers
- Exceptional leader who can mentor high potential engineers earlier in their career
- Detail oriented individual who has strong opinions on the technologies being developed by their team and is fully immersed in day to day execution and delivery
- Strong communicator who effectively lays out their technical vision to the broader engineering organization
- 15+ years software engineering experience
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) is a plus
- Experience building developer environments, CI/CD pipelines, and implementing test frameworks is a plus
- Excited about both our mission to deliver honest financial products and to do it by building a meritocracy
What the job involves
- At Affirm, we’ve been very successful in our mission in delivering honest financial products that improve lives
- In order to further this mission as we scale, we are looking for a Principle Engineer focused on developing world class Infrastructure platform capabilities for Affirm
- Help set the technical vision and strategy for the platforms, frameworks, and services that enable every engineer at Affirm and serve every customer
- Provide technical guidance and influence in other areas of Engineering
- Lead technical teams and collaborate with the broader engineering organization to deliver solutions that improve reliability, lower costs, and enable developers
- Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization
- Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas
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
-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 HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
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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