Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Comms Platform
€85-115k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
€85-115k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
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 experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring senior engineers
- Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns (e.g: Kotlin, Python, Flask, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others)
- Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP etc
- Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
- Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience — ours, our stakeholders', and our company's — as we do the design of our engineering systems
- You are not dogmatic and believe in solving problems with the right tool for the job
- Experience providing reviews on teammates code and designs, providing constructive feedback to meet a high bar of quality and help others grow
- Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication
- Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow. Ambiguity is where you thrive
What the job involves
- The Comms Platform team is responsible for managing critical services that are integral to the success and sustainability of our organization. This services require attention to detail, proactive maintenance, and swift response times to ensure uninterrupted operations
- The recent high-priority requests include upcoming UK launch and comms modernization initiative; these are pivotal to our organizational growth and competitiveness in the market. Also, they require dedicated people and expertise to execute efficiently and effectively. Without sufficient capacity, we risk delays, quality compromises, and missed opportunities to capitalize on key strategic objectives. Come join us!
- Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources
- Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
- Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
- Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other engineers, both inside and outside the immediate team
- Foster a respectful and supportive environment that embraces the diversity of the team
- 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
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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