Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Backend, Search Platform
€71.7-107.5k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
€71.7-107.5k
+ 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
- We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer to join us and help fulfill our vision
- 4-6 years proven experience as a software engineer
- Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages
- Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
- Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with deployment and automated testing frameworks, including experience with AWS services, such as EC2, S3, and RDS, as well as search services like OpenSearch, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
What the job involves
- The Search Platform team builds and maintains a platform for organized, consistent and relevant search results to consumers
- The goal of the team is to allow for reliable access to the Affirm marketplace 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 features and capabilities
- 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 managers and tech leads to develop features to support product and platform initiatives
- Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
- Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion
- Actively participate in making your team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds
- Collaborate with team members on an on-call rotation basis, as it is required, to ensure seamless support and maintenance of the platform, contributing to its reliability and continuous improvement
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
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
Founders
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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