Affirm

Staff Software Engineer

Poland

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial Technology, Credit Services, E-commerceIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Not specified

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. The Search Platform team is building the next generation of Affirm Marketplace Search, helping millions of consumers find the best financing options with increasingly relevant search results. We are a high-impact team leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build and maintain a highly available, scalable search platform. Our work directly shapes the user experience, driving business growth and innovation. As part of our team, you will:

  • Collaborate with cross-functional product, engineering, and data science teams to experiment, iterate, and optimize search relevance.
  • Solve complex technical challenges in information retrieval, ranking, embeddings, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Work in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment where your ideas and contributions will have a direct impact.

What You'll Do

  • Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
  • Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
  • Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
  • Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

  • Experience: 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • Technical Skills: Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
  • Delivery: Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
  • Coding: Write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize search relevance.
  • Solving complex technical challenges in search and distributed systems.
  • Contributing to a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Application Instructions

  • Not specified

Company Information

  • Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly.

Skills

Information Retrieval
Ranking
Embeddings
Large-scale Distributed Systems
Search Relevance
Technical Strategy
Operational Processes
Monitoring
Code Review
Design Standards

Affirm

Provides buy now, pay later financing solutions

About Affirm

Affirm offers point-of-sale financing solutions as an alternative to traditional credit cards. It allows consumers to make purchases and pay over time through installment plans, often without hidden fees or deferred interest. Affirm partners with merchants to integrate its payment solutions into online and in-store shopping experiences, using user-friendly plugins and APIs. The company generates revenue from interest and fees on loans to consumers, as well as fees from merchants for offering its financing options. Affirm also provides a merchant dashboard for transaction processing and promotional tools to help businesses market these financing options effectively. The goal of Affirm is to empower consumers with flexible payment options while providing value to merchants in the e-commerce and retail markets.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2012Year Founded
$1,113.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Spending wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
Supportive communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
Remote-first workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
Generous time off: Take the time you need when life happens
Health benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
Mental healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
Parental leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay.
Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family.
Away days: We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge.
Learning & development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth.

Risks

Increased CFPB regulation could raise compliance costs for Affirm.
Affirm faces competition from new entrants in the BNPL market.
Reliance on partners like Adyen and Apple poses potential revenue risks.

Differentiation

Affirm offers transparent installment loans with no hidden fees or surprises.
Affirm partners with over 2,000 merchants, including major retail brands.
Affirm's user-friendly APIs enable seamless integration with online and in-store platforms.

Upsides

Affirm's partnership with Adyen expands its reach in North America.
Affirm's $4 billion partnership with Sixth Street boosts financial stability.
Affirm's BNPL services gain traction among high-income consumers.

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