Affirm

Software Engineer II

Job Description

Posted on: 
June 11, 2024

Affirm’s mission is to build honest financial products to improve user’s lives. We are seeking a Software Engineer to build parts of Affirm's backend disclosure and localization systems which enable Affirm's products to be offered across multiple geographies and locales. You will investigate, spec, design, and implement systems to generate, send, and archive legal disclosures to Affirm customers for our expanding financial products and services. You will look for opportunities to create internal tooling and automate processes to increase efficiencies in launching new products across multiple locales. Your technical leadership will have a high impact on the future growth of Affirm, as we aim to provide honest financial products throughout the world!

Responsibilities

Work with technical leaders in the team to design and implement insightful forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems


Collaborate with engineers within the Disclosures team and across other product engineering teams to create a platform that can be integrated with many teams


Take ownership over parts of the Disclosures system


Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others


Review others’ work and provide constructive feedback in order to maintain high and consistent quality standards across teams


Conduct technical evaluations to inform and influence the hiring decisions

Job Requirements

2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer


Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset


Fluency in backend development


Familiarity with Python, AWS, and Kubernetes is a plus


Prior experience designing, 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


Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown

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