Software Engineer, Backend (Membership) @ Affirm

Software Engineer, Backend (Membership)

Posted on 11/30/2021

INACTIVE

Locations

International • Remote

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

.NET

Requirements

2+ years of software engineering experience shipping production quality code
Solid CS fundamentals and fluency in a dynamically typed language
Prior experience building and launching complex software systems
Well-developed interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better!

Responsibilities

Design and implement large scale services, elegant abstractions, and robust APIs
Work with product and internal partners to extend our identity decisioning service
Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
Participate in our teams on-call rotation to communicate, escalate, and fix critical issues
Collaborate with our Compliance team to identify, remediate, and prevent issues & risk
Participate in making our team and workplace an inclusive environment

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, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly.

The Membership team’s mission is to provide consistent, reliable, and extensible interfaces for managing Affirm user accounts and for dependent services to read and write user data.

This team is core to helping Affirm scale by owning our Members Service, a foundational building block for defining, retrieving, and persisting user data from across all of Affirm’s products and services. Our team is growing and looking for a software engineer to help build a unified platform for our millions of users accounts. Come join us!

What You’ll Do

Design and implement large scale services, elegant abstractions, and robust APIs
Work with product and internal partners to extend our identity decisioning service
Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
Participate in our team’s on-call rotation to communicate, escalate, and fix critical issues
Collaborate with our Compliance team to identify, remediate, and prevent issues & risk
Participate in making our team and workplace an inclusive environment

What We Look For

2+ years of software engineering experience shipping production quality code
Solid CS fundamentals and fluency in a dynamically typed language
Prior experience building and launching complex software systems
Well-developed interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better!

Location - Remote Canada

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! 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.

#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.

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 2020 DEI Report.

We also believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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1,001-5,000 employees

Website

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.

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.