Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
Requirements
- Building software using modern programming languages such as Kotlin, Python, or equivalent;
- Designing full stack software solutions that are robust, maintainable, and scalable;
- Leveraging software engineering best-practices such as Source Control, Agile Methodology, or Code Reviews to develop and deploy projects within an agreed upon timeline;
- Debugging code issues utilizing logging and monitoring systems and stack trace analysis;
- Writing technical specifications for software features, discussing tradeoffs and breaking down complex concepts into actionable work items;
- Developing backend features including APIs (application programming interfaces), data schemas, data stores, and algorithms;
- Ensuring code quality and system health via automated and manual test coverage, debugging, and "on-call rotations";
Responsibilities
- Design and develop software for the consumer facing mobile and web application;
- Create tools and libraries that provide foundational functionality for, or in support of, the core consumer facing web and mobile applications;
- Maintain, improve, test, build, and release pipelines;
- Provide guidance on core application architectural decisions and driving implementation;
- Work with engineers across the organization on project definition, technical specification, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance;
- Generate designs for new functionalities that are robust, maintainable and scalable;
- Write code that can be understood and leveraged by others, and meet the demands of the business’s rapid growth;
Other
- Incorporate needs and opinions from stakeholders, advocating for ideas and initiatives;
- Provide support on questions about the consumer facing application implementation and the tooling built around the app;
- Mentor less-experienced members of the team by helping them with code review and setting up best coding practices.
- May telecommute
- Participating in recruiting efforts via conducting interviews and writing or presenting technical content.
