Software Engineer, Product Engineering (Senior, Staff+)
KustomerSalary not specified
- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
InternshipJob Type
UnknownVisa
Software Development, BiotechnologyIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Hybrid (North America)
- Job 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 Agent Enablement team is responsible for ensuring our 2000+ customer service agents have the right tools, in the right place, at the right time in order to support Affirm's millions of customers. Composed of three teams and 25 engineers located throughout North America, we are a diverse and passionate team that is applying the latest Generative AI technologies to deliver a world class experience for our customers and agents.
Requirements
- Experience: 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Expertise in technologies such as:
- Python
- Kotlin
- AWS
- MySQL
- Kubernetes
- Web Development: Proficiency in developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning: Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
- Operational Ownership: Ensure your team has the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
- Culture & Quality: Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them.
- Talent Development: Provide feedback and guidance to team members, and lead by example.
- Feature Delivery & Deprecation: Deliver major features, system components, or deprecate existing functionality through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
- Code Quality: Write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
- System Understanding: Thrive in ambiguity and be comfortable moving from low-level language idioms to the architecture of large systems.
- Feedback Integration: Demonstrate mastery in gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
Application Instructions
- Not specified in the provided text.
Skills
Python
Kotlin
AWS
MySQL
Kubernetes
React
Vue
SQL
Problem-Solving
Team Collaboration
Technical Strategy
System Design
Code Quality
Ambiguity
Feedback Iteration
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