Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Storage and Replication
$169-240k
Salary dependent on location + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$169-240k
Salary dependent on location + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 4+ years of experience in software engineering with progressive levels of responsibility
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or similar. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Working knowledge of OLTP and OLAP solutions an asset (SQL, NoSQL, Data Lakes/Warehouses)
- Technical Leadership: Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
- Team Player: Community builder with strong network-building and collaboration skills and a strong desire to grow and mentor others
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Education: This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- The Storage & Replication team is responsible for the infrastructure and services that power Affirm’s most critical data pipelines by providing access to replicated data from across the organization through our Apache Iceberg-powered Data Lake and Snowflake-powered Cloud Data Warehouse. The team’s mission is to establish a modern, efficient, and scalable data infrastructure that empowers all Affirm teams to work seamlessly with data
- We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to help drive the development of our Data Lake infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the many teams that depend on this mission critical system.
- You’ll have the opportunity to directly contribute to your team’s roadmap in close collaboration with your peers, share your knowledge and expertise with others and learn from some of the best on our shared mission to deliver honest financial products that improve lives
- Design and develop: Deliver on improvements to our Data Lake infrastructure that unlock new functionality and meet the scalability and reliability needs of our users
- Innovate: Stay up to date in industry trends and best practices, identifying opportunities to improve our systems and processes through the use of new technologies
- Collaborate: Build relationships with others while partnering with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure the services we provide meet or exceed their expectations
- Improve: Contribute to the ongoing improvement of your team’s quality standards and development processes, reviewing others work and providing constructive feedback where necessary
- Build teams: Play an active role in building an inclusive and positive culture through active participation in team discourse, providing mentorship for junior team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
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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