Senior Software Engineer
Backend, Trust & Safety
Updated on 11/30/2023
Point of sale installment loans for consumers
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.
Financial Services
Consumer Goods
Data & Analytics
Company Stage
IPO
Total Funding
$3B
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↓ -2%1 year growth
↓ -12%2 year growth
↑ 16%Locations
Remote in USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Apache Spark
AWS
Apache Kafka
Data Analysis
Airflow
Kubernetes
Python
CategoriesNew
Software Engineering
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong engineering experience building, launching, coding and maintaining complex systems
- Experience with Python
- Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS
- Experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes and Airflow
- Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics and Business teams
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including the capability to drive requirements with product and engineering teams and to present technical concepts and results in an audience-appropriate way
- Ability to work efficiently both solo and as part of a team; willingness to learn new things and mentor others
Responsibilities
- Design and write high quality code to increase Identity users conversion rates
- Provide technical leadership in a particular area and actively contribute to technical discussions
- Work with and guide engineers on detailed project definition, design, technical specification, cross-functional alignment, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
- Build relationships and drive coordination across engineering, partner organizations, and other disciplines, helping get to positive outcomes
- Proactively communicate and coordinate team’s requirements with other groups and teams in engineering
- Mentor less-experienced members of team by helping them with code review, setting up best coding practices, providing guidance, and setting a good example
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with data-driven and iterative approaches to increase user conversion rates
- Experience in the Identity domain
- Experience with data analysis and experimentation
- Experience with machine learning and analytics
- Experience with product development and management