Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Merchant Experience
£140-180k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
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POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£140-180k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 8-10+ years of experience as a software engineer with 3+ years of technical leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers
- A Self driven and motivated engineer who takes pride and ownership in navigating through ambiguities and solving complex technical/organizational problems
- Expert in designing and building distributed systems and applications, real-time, scalable web services, REST APIs, developer portals
- Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages
- Proficiency in Unit test and IntegrationTest frameworks
- Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Analytics and Business teams
- A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team
What the job involves
- The goal of the team is to reduce complexity of merchant onboarding and augment merchants’ underwriting and monitoring capabilities, as well as expand their servicing capabilities through high quality tooling and useful, delightful features
- You will work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to support the growth of the company by launching new products
- The work will be challenging due to the speed at which the market is growing, and the work involved will directly impact the growth trajectory of the merchant network
- Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources
- Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
- 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
Salary benchmarks
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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