Software Engineer Ii, Backend (ai Agents)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada · Remote · Financial Platforms - Engineering

Software Engineer II, Backend (AI Agents) at Affirm, focusing on orchestrating systems with an AI agent vendor for customer service. Requires 1.5+ years of SWE experience, API design, and shipping web apps.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. You will 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.
  3. You will 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.
  4. You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.

Skills

Required

  • 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue
  • designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
  • 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
  • strong verbal and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • take ownership and execute for whatever is necessary
  • take ownership of your growth

Other signals

  • AI agent vendor
  • orchestrating systems
  • conversational first point of contact