Affirm's Money Movement Engineering team needs to ensure that payments to merchants happen correctly and on-time, requiring automation of daily processing for large amounts of data in a backend codebase.
Requirements
- experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in Kotlin or similar languages.
- familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Snowflake, and Airflow.
- 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.
- comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- designing, developing and launching backend systems
- building blocks of distributed systems
- 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.
Other
- You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- 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.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
