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Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. 

The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. 

Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad. 

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services


1001 - 5000 employees


Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Senior Software Engineer - Backend
2 days ago

🏄 California – Remote


🦌 Connecticut – Remote


+3 more states


💵 $190k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

Apache

Distributed Systems

Java

Kafka

Kotlin

NoSQL

Open Source

Python

Spark

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📋 Description
• 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 Streaming team at Affirm forms the backbone of several online and offline workloads at Affirm and drives the strategy for event driven architecture, stream processing, replication, data exploration, discovery and validation.
• We leverage existing open source technologies like Kafka, Flink, Spark and also build our own as needed to design and build real-time data processing pipelines that handle massive volumes of data across our distributed systems.
• As a member of our team you would spend time identifying and executing on new use cases of streaming data infrastructure and frameworks , designing and scaling our existing infrastructure and working closely with other teams to promote the optimal use of data at the company. This role requires deep expertise in stream processing technologies and a passion for building scalable, fault-tolerant data infrastructure.
• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• 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 proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• 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 foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years of industry experience in building large scale production systems.
• Strong hands on experience with Apache Kafka for large-scale event streaming and message queueing
• Experience building and operating robust and highly available infrastructure.
• Experience working with Apache Iceberg and data platforms like Snowflake, Glue or Databricks
• Expertise with at least one stream processing frameworks like Spark, Samza, Flink, Beam etc.
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java or Kotlin.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg table format, CDC (Change Data Capture) tools is a strong plus
• Knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring junior engineers
• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• 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.

🏖️ Benefits
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• 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