Software Engineer II, Backend
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Affirm
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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 Bachelorโs 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 systemโs 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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