Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
$206.3-240k
+ ESPP. Salary may vary by location.
POS installment loans
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POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206.3-240k
+ ESPP. Salary may vary by location.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Information Management or related field and 5 years of experience in the following:
- Building software using modern programming languages such as Kotlin, Python, or equivalent
- Designing full stack software solutions that are robust, maintainable, and scalable
- Leveraging software engineering best-practices such as Source Control, Agile Methodology, or Code Reviews to develop and deploy projects within an agreed upon timeline
- Debugging code issues utilizing logging and monitoring systems and stack trace analysis
- Writing technical specifications for software features, discussing tradeoffs and breaking down complex concepts into actionable work items
- Developing backend features including APIs (application programming interfaces), data schemas, data stores, and algorithms
- Ensuring code quality and system health via automated and manual test coverage, debugging, and "on-call rotations"; and
- Participating in recruiting efforts via conducting interviews and writing or presenting technical content
What the job involves
- You'll design and develop software for the consumer facing mobile and web application
- Create tools and libraries that provide foundational functionality for, or in support of, the core consumer facing web and mobile applications
- Maintain, improve, test, build, and release pipelines
- Incorporate needs and opinions from stakeholders, advocating for ideas and initiatives
- Provide guidance on core application architectural decisions and driving implementation
- Work with engineers across the organization on project definition, technical specification, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
- Generate designs for new functionalities that are robust, maintainable and scalable
- Write code that can be understood and leveraged by others, and meet the demands of the business’s rapid growth
- Provide support on questions about the consumer facing application implementation and the tooling built around the app; and
- Mentor less-experienced members of the team by helping them with code review and setting up best coding practices
- May telecommute
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.
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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
- 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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