Senior Backend Software Engineer, Affirm
Financial Platforms
$146.1-243.5k
This role may be eligible for equity awards and employee stock purchase plan available; Salary dependent on location
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$146.1-243.5k
This role may be eligible for equity awards and employee stock purchase plan available; Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 4-6+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset
- Experience with Payments systems and vendors
- Fluency in back end development
- Familiarity with Python, AWS, and Kubernetes is a plus
- Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products
- Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
- Experienced at synthesizing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
- Humble and authentic leadership which places the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible
- Experience scaling systems in a service oriented architecture preferred but not required
- Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
What the job involves
- The Payments Engineering team is responsible for building the systems which power financial transactions at Affirm, from our consumer scale lending products to enterprise money movements
- We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to help define and drive the Payments Instruments team as a part of Affirm’s Payments platform
- You will work to integrate industry leading payment processors and banking partners, abstracting the complexity into scalable and fault tolerant services to other Affirm engineering teams
- Develop a deep understanding of the payments industry
- Manage a team focused on a particular area, providing technical leadership for the team, while having a detailed understanding of our business, company goals, roadmap and resource plans
- Drive planning and prioritization of projects based on product, technical, and business goals by demonstrating relevant resources and data
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, designers and analysts to deliver high quality consumer experience
- Coach and mentor employees to increase their impact through regular performance development and feedback conversations
- Foster a respectful and supportive environment for all team members that effectively maximizes the diversity of the team
- Partner with Product managers on building beautiful internal APIs to enable payments across our products
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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