Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Affirm's Merchant Engineering team as a Software Engineer II and build financial products and features that enhance user accessibility and flexibility. You will design and implement new API and microservice interfaces to manage merchant lifecycle, analytics, and data interactions. Improve the performance and reliability of systems driving the user purchasing experience. Your technical leadership will be crucial to Affirm's explosive growth. The role involves developing technical strategies, collaborating with engineers, and improving engineering standards. Affirm offers competitive benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.

Requirements

• 2-4+ years of experience as a software engineer
• You have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale
• Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems ( sentry.io , rollbar, chronosphere, kibana)

Responsibilities

• Technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems
• Participating in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs
• Actively owning the merchant data platform and defining it's long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
• Collaborating with engineers within our team and across the organization
• Improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes throughout the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building Python, Kotlin APIs
• Experience with mySQL or ElasticSearch
• Experience building thoughtfully designed, highly performant interfaces
• Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience (ours, our stakeholders', and our company's) as we do the design of our engineering systems
• You enjoy leading technical architecture discussions and drive technical decisions within your team and beyond
• You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing. If anything, you trend towards over-communication

Benefits

• 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