Software Engineer II, Backend (Decisions Orchestration)Active$165K–$225K

The opportunity

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

What you'll do

  • Work with technical leaders in the team to design and implement insightful: forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems

  • Actively own components of checkout systems and define their long-term: health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems

  • Collaborate with engineers within our team and across the organization to: build the next generation of the checkout platform

  • Learn and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the checkout platform

  • Take Ownership. You enjoy working with product and engineering leaders to: develop detailed project definitions, and drive technical decisions within your team

  • Execute. You have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale

What they're looking for

  • Collaborate. You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing. If: anything, you trend towards over-communication
  • Build Teams. You grow with engineers around you through sharing your: learnings and providing feedback to your peers that will help the team grow
  • Customer-centric mentality. You are empathetic to the user experience and: thoughtful about what we can do to make it better
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field