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
With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down: larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
You will 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.
You will 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.
You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in: growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.
You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and: are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin.
What they're looking for
- You have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue
- Experience developing and architecting mobile applications, preferably using: declarative UI frameworks like React Native is a bonus.
- You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and: providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
- You have 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.
