Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/affirm/jobs/software-engineer-ii-backend-card-checkout-united-states-remote Job Description: Affirm Website LinkedIn All Job Openings 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 Software Engineer II, Backend, Card Checkout 5 days ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $142k - $210k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟢 Junior 🔙 Backend Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor AWS Distributed Systems Java Kotlin Kubernetes MySQL Python Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 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 Card Checkout team is responsible for the Checkout experience for the Card products of Affirm (VCN and Affirm Card). Our central focus is developing high quality, seamless, scalable and flexible checkout experiences that enable users to get transparent, honest financing for their purchases anywhere with the Affirm card products. • As a Software Engineer on the Card Checkout team, you will play a critical role in the development and implementation of complex software systems that allow for a seamless checkout experience for our users. • What You'll Do • With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of software systems and applications by breaking down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work. • You will develop innovative solutions to meet business needs, focusing on robustness, security, and performance. • 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. • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, or others as required. • You will optimize and refactor existing code to enhance performance and scalability. • You will contribute to enhance engineering craft by reviewing code, provide feedback, and ensure adherence to best coding practices. • You will participate in Agile development practices used by the team in the software development lifecycle including ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. • 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 with the goal of reducing mean time to detection and mean time to resolution of incidents 🎯 Requirements • You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer. • You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin. • You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. • 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. 🏖️ 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 • 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.