Senior Software Engineer

Payments, UK

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Locations

London, UK • Remote

Experience Level

Entry

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Requirements

4+ years of experience as a software engineer
Direct experience integrating payment processors
Fluency in back end development
Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products
Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable and robust payment services which power billions of dollars in transactions every year
Partner with Product managers on building beautiful internal APIs to enable payments across our products
Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing
Develop a deep understanding of the payments industry
Build relationships and engage with management across the USA and Europe
Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build financial products and perform financial transactions at Affirm

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.

The Payments Engineering team is responsible for building the systems which power financial transactions at Affirm. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to design and build foundational payment APIs which enable us to process payments globally at scale. These systems form the backbone of our ability to transact financially with customers and partners across both existing financial products and new product development.

In this role you will contribute to metrics around the performance and availability of our payment systems. You will be a key member of the seed team as we expand our engineering presence into the UK.

What you’ll do

Design and build scalable and robust payment services which power billions of dollars in transactions every year.
Partner with Product managers on building beautiful internal APIs to enable payments across our products.
Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
Develop a deep understanding of the payments industry.
Build relationships and engage with management across the USA and Europe.
Partner with a diverse set of engineering teams who build financial products and perform financial transactions at Affirm.

What we look for

4+ years of experience as a software engineer

Direct experience integrating payment processors.
Fluency in back end development.

Familiarity with Python, AWS, and Kubernetes is a plus.

Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining consumer scale products.
Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.

Location - Remote England

Please note that visa sponsorship is not currently available for this position.

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.

[For U.S. Candidates] All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. The grade for this position is noted above and in accordance with various U.S. pay transparency laws, we provide the base pay range and benefits for our U.S.-based positions in the links below:

Jobs in Grades 21-54: shorturl.at/H0124

Jobs in Grades 61-74: shorturl.at/kK015

If you got this far, we hope you’re feeling excited about this role. Even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in Affirm’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.

Inclusivity:

At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.

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Company Overview

Affirm seeks to deliver honest financial products—to improve lives. The company operates a buy-now-pay-later platform for consumers at the point of sale.

Benefits

Spending wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
Supportive communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
Remote-first workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
Generous time off: Take the time you need when life happens
Health benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
Mental healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
Parental leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay.
Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family.
Away days: We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge.
Learning & development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth.

Company Core Values

People come first: We consider our impact on people’s lives before we think about our own interests.
No fine print: We are completely transparent and honest—with our customers and with each other.
It's on us: We take full accountability for our actions, never shirking responsibility or passing the buck.
Simpler is better: We make complex things simple and clear.
Push the envelope: We never stop innovating, taking smart risks, and raising the bar.