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.

The Merchant Portal APIs team at Affirm builds and maintains the backend APIs that powers the Affirm Merchant Portal and Self-Service Onboarding products. The goal of the team is to build the underlying technology that empowers merchants of all sizes to efficiently sign, onboard, launch, and deepen their integration with Affirm.

The technology we are building strives to drive universal merchant adoption of Affirm as a payment option. We are striving to achieve ubiquity across online shopping by accelerating the merchant onboarding process, and empowering merchants to self-manage all aspects of their integration through the Merchant Portal.

We are looking for a highly motivated senior software engineer to join us and help fulfill our vision. The work will be challenging due to the speed at which the market is growing, and the work involved will directly impact the growth trajectory of the merchant network.

What You’ll Do

Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources.
Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
Actively participates in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.

What We Look For

4-6+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Analytics and Business teams.
Expert at synthesizing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team.
Experience scaling systems in a service oriented architecture preferred but not required.

Location

We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company! The majority of our roles can be accomplished anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of Quebec). While most Affirmers will have the option to choose a remote-first accommodation, our offices in San Francisco, New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Salt Lake City will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis. This role requires you to live within reasonable access to a particular office in order to fulfill certain job responsibilities.

If you got to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people that believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just candidates who check all the boxes.

At Affirm, "People Come First" is a core value and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2019 D&I report.

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant Portal APIs)

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