Affirm
Software Engineer II, Backend (Unified Data Platform)
Remote US · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$225kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- 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.
- At Affirm, data powers our underwriting and fraud decisions, user-facing experiences, servicing, and more.
- We value engineers who think in systems, are rigorous about data contracts and lineage, and communicate clearly across domain boundaries.
Responsibilities
- 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 across engineering, 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.
Requirements
- You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
- 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.
- You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
Compensation
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
- USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $ 165,000 - 225,000 USD
- USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $ 146,000 - 206,000 USD
Benefits
- Equity Grade - 6
- Additional benefits include:
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental benefits
- Health care coverage
- Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Company info
- We are seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Unified Data Platform engineering team.
- a governed, federated layer that replaces ad hoc cross-domain ETL with a single read surface - the data backbone that Affirm's product and ML systems depend on.
- You will work across organizational boundaries, partnering with domain teams as data producers, collaborating with infrastructure to meet our SLOs, and developing a clear understanding of our analytics and product consumers across online and offline surfaces.
- You will own correctness and uptime so that downstream teams can build with confidence.
- Strong candidates care about building durable shared platforms, are comfortable shaping architecture in an early-stage buildout, and take personal ownership over the correctness guarantees that other teams depend on.
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