Affirm is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Search Platform team as a highly motivated software engineer to build and maintain the backend of the consumer-facing Affirm marketplace search. The goal is to provide reliable and scalable access to high-quality search results for users looking for specific merchants, categories, or brands.

Requirements

• Over 5 years of proven experience as a software engineer
• Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented, dynamically and strongly typed languages
• Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high-quality system designs and software
• Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with deployment and automated testing frameworks, including experience with AWS services, such as EC2, S3, and RDS, as well as search services like OpenSearch, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Prior experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex systems

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and tech leads to develop features to support product and platform initiatives
• Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out, and maintenance of projects
• Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance, and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling, and expansion
• Actively participate in making your team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds
• Collaborate with team members on an on-call rotation basis, as it is required, to ensure seamless support and maintenance of the platform, contributing to its reliability and continuous improvement

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave
• Employee Resource & Community Groups