Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Repayment User Experience
€85-115k
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POS installment loans
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POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€85-115k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a high level of technical capability, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production-quality backend services
- Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns – Python, Flask, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others
- Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown – e.g. deep complexity, ambiguous problems, unfamiliar technologies
- A track record of influencing other peoples’ work through architecture design, code review, cross-functional collaboration, domain expertise, coaching other engineers, or other means
- Prior experience building, launching and maintaining complex systems. Bonus points for experience with large-scale systems in a service-oriented architecture
- Prior experience collaborating with mobile and/or web frontend software engineers. Experience leading full-stack projects is a plus
- Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English
What the job involves
- The Repayment UX Engineering team is growing and looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Backend development
- Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs
- Influence strategic and tactical decisions related to our product, platform and success metrics
- Identify stakeholders, gather their needs and opinions, advocate for ideas and initiatives, and create a common understanding where all voices are heard
- There’s a very high degree of ownership in the role: you will know precisely what your objectives are, you’ll get everything you need to achieve those objectives, and you’ll be free to choose your own path to reach them
- Partner with engineers, other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems
- You’ll have the opportunity to share your knowledge with others, and learn from very experienced teammates and collaborators
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners like product managers, designers and analysts to deliver an outstanding, high quality experience to our users. The vast majority of people you’ll interact with day to day are located in a compatible timezone
- Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow. Provide them with the right context and train them to take ownership of their respective pieces of our initiatives
- Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
- Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
- Rigorously test the code we write as a team and support it as part of a sustainable on-call rotation
- Take active part in improving our processes, flow of information and work culture
- Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions
- Develop and review the technical content and requirements of the interview process
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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