Software Engineer, Affirm
Full Stack (Capital Orchestration)
$160-210k
Actual Salary range is dependent on location + ESPP
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-210k
Actual Salary range is dependent on location + ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 1.5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficient in backend data processing and batch processing
- Skilled in frontend technologies such as React, GraphQL, and component-based frameworks (Vue, Svelte, Angular)
- Developed shared component libraries in React or equivalent frameworks
- Experience with Figma and converting designs to components is a plus
- Built complex frontend apps, business dashboards, and configuration stores
- Expertise in building APIs for frontends and frontend data modeling
- Track record in designing, building, launching, and maintaining consumer-scale products
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer II to join our Capital Orchestration team, which is responsible for providing liquidity to Affirm by enabling the sale and collateralization of Affirm loan assets
- To achieve this, our team develops a robust and extensible platform for on-demand transactions with low operational risk that scales to billions of dollars of collateral movement each month
- Primary focus on frontend development, comprising approximately 70% of responsibilities, with the remaining 30% dedicated to backend tasks
- Build intuitive and thoughtful user experiences to streamline the workflows of our business counterparts
- Build batch processes and integrate data pipelines to automate workflows and optimize our capital efficiency
- Develop, maintain, and rearchitect Affirm's loan sale Order Management System for scalability, performance, reliability and data integrity
- Build a foundational platform enabling us to reconcile each transaction across systems, partners, and cash movements
- Partner with engineers on the team to help improve designs, code quality, and testing
- Partner with product managers and accountants to design best-in-class systems and processes to reconcile and report
- Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build financial products and perform financial transactions at Affirm
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.
Share this job
View 91 more jobs at Affirm