Front End Software Engineer, Affirm
Consumer Acquisition
$142-210k
Salary is dependent on locations + Employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$142-210k
Salary is dependent on locations + Employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience as a web and mobile client developer
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Prior experience building and maintaining complex front-end systems with cross-browser support
- Knowledge of modern front-end tech stack (we use Javascript, Typescript, React/Redux, ES6, Webpack, and CSS3)
- Prior experience with Javascript testing frameworks (jest, webdriver.io, playwright)
- Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems (Sentry.io, Rollbar, Chronosphere, Kibana)
- Familiarity with mobile UI/UX design principles
- Experience with iOS and Android app development is a plus
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation
- Experience with Git or other version control systems
- A self-driven and motivated engineer who takes pride and ownership in navigating through ambiguities and solving complex technical/organizational problems
- Passion for working with cross-functional teams, including product, design, analytics, and business teams
- Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset
What the job involves
- The Consumer Acquisition Engineering team is critical in bringing our exciting product vision to life. Like any other financial company, our first impression is essential in communicating trust and value to our customers and partners
- Our team leverages the latest technologies and data-driven insights to optimize the onboarding funnel and drive meaningful impact
- Work with product and engineering managers to implement business-critical features enabling new user experiences across the entire stack (mobile, web, backend)
- Work with team technical leaders to design and implement insightful, forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve significant open-ended problems
- Consistently generate simple, elegant designs and write high-quality code that others can easily understand and leverage
- Collaborate with the design team to ensure a visually appealing and user-friendly interface
- Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for project design, implementation, roll-out, and maintenance
- Implement robust analytics and tracking to measure the effectiveness of acquisition efforts
- Work with backend engineers to integrate with APIs and data sources
- Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality and adherence to best practices
- Stay up-to-date on the latest web development technologies and trends
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
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
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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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