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Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace Experience
Location
California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | New Jersey | New York | Washington
Posted
151 days ago
Salary
$115K - $170K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace Experience
Affirm
• With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals. • You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work. • You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime. • You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities.
Job Requirements
- You have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using one of Python or Kotlin.
- You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
- 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.
- Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
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
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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