Role Locations
- New York, NY, United States
- San Francisco, CA, United States
Employees
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Tech Stack
- Python
- Java
- AWS
- React
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- Swift
Role Description
The Backend Engineering team is responsible for building our own proprietary financial platform, as well as our real-time high-throughput data processing pipeline. Our platform provides a single API and set of abstractions that will enable us and our partners to develop any existing financial product, as well as allow for room for innovative new financial products and services to emerge. Our data pipeline is a single pipeline that ties our infrastructure together and is responsible for collecting, prioritizing, relaying, sorting, validating and archiving all log events to different parts of our company and infrastructure ranging from other production services to analytics dashboards as well as data warehouses. This engineer will play a significant role on the team and be responsible for technical decision making as well as hands-on development.
What You'll Do: Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new products and features to be built Architect and build the next version of our data-processing pipeline Create 3rd party developer APIs and tools Analyze/debug performance issues across distributed services Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers
What We Look For: Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better Solid CS fundamentals: strong software engineering fundamentals are far more important than familiarity with specific tools or languages Ability to pick up new technologies quickly Experience building real-time distributed web services Experience developing systems in web application frameworks Experience implementing highly available data storage
Nice to Have: Python expertise Provide mentoring to more junior engineers in their progress on business and personal career goals
About Affirm
Affirm empowers people to say yes to more of the things they love.
While traditional credit cards charge compounding interest and late fees, we show you up front exactly what you’ll owe—with no hidden fees and no surprises. And through advanced technology and analytics that look beyond traditional FICO scores, we’re able to serve a much broader population than anyone else in the space.
We’re growing fast and hiring smart, curious people to help us revolutionize the banking industry and make it more accountable, accessible, and human. If you’re ready to make a difference, join us.
Company Culture
Affirmers believe people come first. We’re passionate about building something that makes a positive change in our customers’ lives.
Success means all hands are on deck—from engineering to sales and operations. We collaborate companywide and challenge each other to bring thoughtful ideas to every project. Even with our growth, Affirm still feels like a tightly-knit team where every perspective counts.
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Tech Stack
- Python
- Java
- AWS
- React
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- Swift
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