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Software Engineer II, Backend (Capital Orchestration)

RemoteUnited States only
Published
Role
Backend
Experience
Mid
Employment
Full-time
$165k–$225k/yr
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Backend engineer with 1.5+ years of experience in full-stack web development, event processing, or batch processing. Needs experience building and maintaining scalable products. Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/React, Airflow, Spark, Horizon Portal, and SQL is a plus. Must have strong communication and collaboration skills, and take ownership of growth.

Core skills

event processingbatch processingbackend development

Required skills

full stack web developmentback end developmentPythonJavaScriptReactAirflowSparkHorizon PortalSQL

Required languages

English

What you'll do

  • Build a foundational platform enabling us to reconcile each transaction across systems, partners, and cash movements.
  • Build and integrate data pipelines from a variety of products and systems.
  • Build intuitive and thoughtful user experiences to streamline the workflows of our business counterparts.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the capital systems which power and fund Affirm.
  • Partner with engineers on the team to help improve designs, code quality, and testing.
  • Collaborate with product managers and business counterparts to design best-in-class systems and processes.
  • 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

What they require

  • You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Fluency in full stack web development, back end development, event processing, or batch processing.
  • Experience in designing, building, launching, and maintaining products at scale.
  • Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
  • Proficiency with agentic coding.
  • You have mastered 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.
  • You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
  • Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
  • You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
  • Someone who is proactive, organized, curious, and a self-starter.
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
  • Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Benefits

  • Equity rewards
  • monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
  • benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
  • Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Parental benefits
  • Employee Resource & Community Groups
  • competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first.
  • 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
  • We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities.
  • We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.

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$165k–$225k/yr