Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Test Platform Engineering
€101-131k
+ Employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€101-131k
+ 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
- 7+ years of software development experience
- Strong sense of ownership with a proven track record of successfully driving large cross-functional technical programs
- Prior experience in designing, building, launching, and maintaining consumer-scale products
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams, both written and spoken, with proficiency in asynchronous communication methods such as written tech specs, RFCs, wiki entries, project plans, etc
- Proficiency in either back-end or front-end development, with a particular focus on testing
- Working experience in Python, Kotlin, and/or React is a significant advantage
- Experience in building or contributing to test automation frameworks and infrastructure is highly desirable
- Familiarity with practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus
- A passion for improving consumer financial services
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineer to contribute to Developer Productivity, with a focus on Test Platform Engineering
- Our team’s flagship platforms provide lightweight test frameworks for every layer, synthetic identities, test data seeding, endpoint mocking, and overall testing infrastructure
- These tools enable Affirm Engineering Teams to perform automated, deterministic testing with consistency across locations. Additionally, we support our partner teams in conducting exploratory testing, allowing us to collaboratively evolve our ways of working
- Our goal is to create a workplace where teams, composed of partners from engineering, product, and design backgrounds, can focus on creativity and problem-solving, empowered by simplified, repeatable, and automated testing processes
- In this role, you will actively collaborate on the roadmap, design technical solutions, and drive cross-team initiatives
- You will work closely with the Engineering Director and the team to enhance quality standards and processes while representing the team in broader organizational efforts
- Partner with stakeholders to align on roadmaps, strategy, and vision for the Test Platform Engineering team
- Lead technical decisions, initiatives, and roadmaps within the Developer Productivity team and beyond
- Collaborate with other technical leads, management, and stakeholders across the organization to design and implement solutions that extend beyond the team’s scope and require cross-functional collaboration
- Lead and mentor engineers, helping them to grow and succeed. Provide guidance to engineers across the organization to improve their code quality and testing skills
- Work closely with teammates from engineering, product, and design backgrounds to craft best-in-class systems and processes around test frameworks and infrastructure, with the ultimate goal of enabling them to build the best financial products
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
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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