Software Engineer II, Backend

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Affirm

๐Ÿ’ต $142k-$210k
๐Ÿ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

Join Affirm's Ledger Engineering Team as a highly motivated Software Engineer. You will work on a robust, scalable ledger platform supporting rapid financial product innovation and handling tens of millions of transactions daily. Responsibilities include designing and building data pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving system extensibility. The ideal candidate possesses 1+ years of software engineering experience, backend development fluency, and strong communication skills. Affirm offers competitive benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending stipends, competitive time off, and an employee stock purchase plan. This is a remote-first position.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Drive to change consumer financial services for the better
  • Fluency in back end development, event processing, and batch processing
  • Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
  • Passion for learning new technical and business domains
  • Detailed execution where validation and accuracy are paramount
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelorโ€™s degree in a related field

Responsibilities

  • Work with ledger peers and stakeholders to drive business impact on the ledger platform in support of product, commercial, capital markets, and accounting initiatives
  • Design and build robust, well-instrumented batch data pipelines that can scale to handle Affirm's future growth and adhere to strict SLAs
  • Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams such as Accounting, Capital Markets, and Treasury to help translate their requirements into engineering strategy
  • Improve our ledger systemโ€™s extensibility for global expansion and scalability

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of Python, Airflow, Spark, AWS, and Snowflake

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
  • 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
  • Remote work

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