Software Engineer I

Summary

Join Affirm's Search Platform team and help build the next generation of Affirm Marketplace Search! You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize search relevance, solve complex technical challenges, and work in a fast-paced environment. This role requires experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, familiarity with distributed systems and technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, and strong communication skills. You will contribute to team projects, collaborate with stakeholders, balance speed and quality, and participate in team growth activities. On-call rotation is required. Affirm offers competitive benefits, including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending wallets, away days, learning and development programs, parental benefits, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Requirements

• Have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using one of Python or Kotlin
• Be familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• Have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
• Be comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• Work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals
• Work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work
• Strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime
• Contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount