Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Money Movement
$232-282k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$232-282k
+ 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
- You have 10+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
- Ideal candidates will have some financial (fintech/bank/accounting) experience and be comfortable talking about how money is handled at scale
- Ideal candidates will have experience with batch systems and working with large datasets
- You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
- Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Money Movement Engineering team
- Our Money Movement Engineering group is responsible for ensuring proper processing of over $100 million per day to Affirm’s hundreds of thousands of merchant and investor partners. These are complex, mission-critical systems that are fundamental to the operation of Affirm as a highly sophisticated fintech
- You will be responsible for setting long-term technical strategy for the group on a year+ time scale. This includes architecture, coding practices, and operating principles
- You will collaborate across the engineering org in the product development lifecycle, working with the many Financial Platforms stakeholders, including Product Management, Accounting, Capital Markets, and others
- You will take ownership of the group’s operations and availability by ensuring teams are following best practices and thinking long-term about system health
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
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
-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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