Senior Backend Software Engineer, Affirm
Repayment User Experience
€71.7-107.5k
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POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
€71.7-107.5k
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 software engineering experience shipping production-quality backend services
- Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns (e.g: Python, Flask, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others)
- Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown (ambiguous problems, unfamiliar technologies)
- A track record of influencing other peoples’ work through architecture design, code review, cross-functional collaboration, domain expertise, coaching other engineers, or other means
- Prior experience building, launching and maintaining complex systems
- Prior experience collaborating with mobile and/or web frontend software engineers. Experience leading full-stack projects is a plus
- Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English
What the job involves
- Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs
- Influence strategic and tactical decisions related to our product, platform and success metrics
- Identify stakeholders, gather their needs and opinions, advocate for ideas and initiatives, and create a common understanding where all voices are heard
- Partner with engineers, other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners like product managers, designers and analysts to deliver an outstanding, high quality experience to our users. The vast majority of people you’ll interact with day to day are located in a compatible timezone
- Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow. Provide them with the right context and train them to take ownership of their respective pieces of our initiatives
- Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
- Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
- Rigorously test the code we write as a team and support it as part of a sustainable on-call rotation
- Take active part in improving our processes, flow of information and work culture
- Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions. Develop and review the technical content and requirements of 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.
Boasting over 21M consumers and 337,000+ 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
-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
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & 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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