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 Marketplace Performance team in the Direct to Consumer org builds the discovery platforms behind Affirm’s deals feed, affiliates, payment attribution and merchandising systems. Our mission is to help shoppers find the right merchant and financing for their needs. As a member of our team, you’ll ship features that make it faster and easier for shoppers to find the right merchant and financing for their needs. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to scope work, write clean and well-tested code, review PRs, and ship new functionality iteratively. We value curiosity, ownership, and empathy for our customers. Join us to grow your impact while building dependable features for our Marketplace.
What You'll Do
- 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 with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, 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.
- You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.
What We Look For
- You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- You have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
- You have experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- 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.
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