Senior Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

In Short

• Design, develop, and test high quality software systems using Python or Kotlin.
• Support product development lifecycle by collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Identify project, process, technology or business issues and drive solutions for issues.
• Setting and maintaining code review and design standards for team.
• Independently identify the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems.
• Own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals on the team.
• Incorporate needs and opinions from stakeholders, advocating for ideas and initiatives.
• Provide guidance on core application architectural decisions and leading implementation.
• Define and deliver well-scoped milestones for a project, technical specification and be a technical lead for projects on the team.
• Engineering and integrating Affirm’s systems with third-party servicing solutions such as AWS.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field & 3 years of experience in software application development including Python or Kotlin.
• Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases including SQL, NoSQL and relational databases.
• Architecting and maintaining complex distributed systems.
• Developing and deploying projects using Control, Agile Methodology or Code Reviews.
• AWS cloud computing resources including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda or SQS.
• Containerization (Docker and Kubernetes).
• Utilizing modern testing frameworks to write and maintain unit, integration and functional tests.
• Debugging code issues utilizing data and stack trace analysis.

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.