Software Engineer II, Backend

Summary

Join Affirm's Consumer Authentication Engineering team as a highly motivated Backend engineer to contribute to key architecture and product initiatives. You will collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, and technical leads to design, develop, and launch scalable backend systems. Responsibilities include building optimizations through experimentation, improving conversion metrics, and working with cross-functional teams on project implementation and maintenance. The ideal candidate possesses 2+ years of backend software engineering experience with proficiency in Kotlin or Java, experience with distributed systems, and strong communication skills. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including equity rewards, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• You have 2+ years of experience as a backend / server-side software engineer
• You are proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using technologies like Kotlin (or any JVM language), Java
• Proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java/JVM and their associated backend ecosystem is a must (Database access, Dependency Injection, Gradle/Maven, testing tooling, etc)
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
• You are a self driven and motivated engineer who takes pride and ownership in navigating through ambiguities and solving complex technical/organizational problems
• You have experience designing and building distributed systems and applications, real-time, scalable web services and REST APIs
• Proficiency in unit & integrating testing
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Consumer Authentication team; Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Technical Leads and other developers in the execution of projects under the team roadmap
• Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
• Work with other cross engineering teams and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
• Participate in regular scrum meetings like Sprint Planning and Daily Stand ups

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes and Airflow
• You're a humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team

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