Senior Software Engineer (Search Platform)
Overview
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.
Job Description
The Search Platform team builds and maintains the backend of the consumer facing Affirm marketplace search. The goal of the team is to allow for reliable and scalable access to high quality search results for users looking for specific merchants, categories or brands. You will work within cross-functional product and engineering teams to support the growth of the company by launching new features while continually improving the code base.
Responsibilities
- - Work with product managers and tech leads to develop features to support product and platform initiatives.
- - Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others.
- - Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
- - Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion.
- - Actively participate in making your team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.
- - Collaborate with team members on an on-call rotation basis, as it is required, to ensure seamless support and maintenance of the platform, contributing to its reliability and continuous improvement.
Required Skills
- - Over 5 years of proven experience as a software engineer
- - Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented, dynamically and strongly typed languages.
- - Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
- - Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
- - Familiarity with deployment and automated testing frameworks, including experience with AWS services, such as EC2, S3, and RDS, as well as search services like OpenSearch, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- - Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
Benefits
- - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- - Learning & Development programs
- - Parental leave
- - Employee Resource & Community Groups
- - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- - 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
About the company
We started Affirm because credit cards aren’t working. They lure us in with perks, but end up costing a lot: The average U.S. household has $6,000 in credit card debt. With Affirm, you’ll never owe more than you agree to up front. Instead, you’ll always get a flexible, transparent, and convenient way to pay over time.