Software Engineer I, Backend (purchasing Power Experience)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada, United States · Remote · Checkout

Software Engineer I, Backend role at Affirm, focusing on designing and implementing new features in their underwriting platform to support partnered merchants and users. The role involves working on backend systems at scale, distributed systems, and utilizing technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Requires experience with Python or Kotlin and strong collaboration skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals.
  2. You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work.
  3. You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime.
  4. You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities.

Skills

Required

  • Python or Kotlin
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
  • building blocks of distributed systems
  • taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components
  • writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
  • navigating a large code base
  • debugging others' code
  • providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
  • ownership of your growth
  • proactively seeking feedback
  • strong verbal and written communication skills