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About the role
- Software Engineer II developing backend systems at Affirm. Collaborating cross-functionally to enhance underwriting features for credit access.
Responsibilities
- With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work
- Support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs
- Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
- Contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process
Requirements
- 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
- Familiarity with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
- Mastering 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
- Comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering 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
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