Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Repayments
€83.9-125.8k
+ employee stock purchase plan
More information about location
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
€83.9-125.8k
+ 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 development experience
- Experience leading design and execution and delivery of backend software projects
- Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure , GCP etc
- Experience with designing and owning highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems using cloud storage services
- Strong understanding of CS fundamentals such as Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems, algorithms, and data structures. Hands-on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
- Experience building software for database administration or experience with devops for databases is a plus
- Working knowledge of OLAP systems like Snowflake, Redshift , BigQuery and Table formats like Apache Iceberg , HUDI, Delta Lake is a plus
- Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset
- Machine learning experience is a bonus but it’s not required
- At least one of:
- Experience working in Database, SRE, or Infrastructure teams in the past, or have operated a distributed data storage system such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, or others
- Experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We use technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX, but we are always looking for new technologies to adopt
What the job involves
- The Repayments Platform team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Backend development
- The team is located entirely in Europe with Poland as our base of operations
- This role requires a high level of technical capability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication and a creative mindset
- You’ll start by leading the technical initiatives of one of our teams while slowly expanding your area of responsibility with the end goal of leading several teams initiatives
- Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs
- 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
- Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions
- Partner with other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems
- Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
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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