Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Partner Merchant Interface)

Job description

About this role

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. The Partner Merchant Interfaces - Integration team within Decisions Foundations is growing and we are looking for a Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• - 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.

Qualifications and 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.