Frontend Software Engineer, Affirm
Trust & Safety Experience
$115-170k
Salary dependent on location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$115-170k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 1-2 years of experience as a software engineer/Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Self driven and motivated engineer who takes pride and ownership in navigating through ambiguities and solving complex technical/organizational problems
- Proficiency in front end web application development using React and Redux
- Comfortable finding their way around back end APIs and models (we use Python, Flask)
- Knowledgeable in web best practices, e.g., browser capabilities, unit and integration testing (we use Webdriver IO, Playwright, Jest, React testing library)
- Comfortable partnering with product managers and designers with an attention to detail
- Great communicator and collaborator
- Great product and design sense
- A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- The Trust and Safety Experience team owns all customer facing components of the Trust & Safety Platform
- The team supports the user interfaces for Affirm Products like Card, Savings, Prequal, Checkout, User Portal and Repayment flows across various geographies
- The team builds the User Experience for sign in / signup, authentication, risk , fraud detection & mitigation flows
- We are looking for a strong software engineer to build and enhance user interfaces and backend APIs to deliver the Identity and Fraud decisions for users who come through various platforms (Web, iOS, Android) and entry channels
- You will be responsible for building optimizations through experimentation and improving the E2E conversion
- Work with product and engineering managers to implement business critical features enabling new user experiences across the entire stack (mobile, web, backend)
- Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
- Actively participate in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds
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
Insights
Some 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.
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