Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/affirm/jobs/software-engineer-ii-backend-trust-and-safety-foundations-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, Trust and Safety Foundations 4 minutes ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $142k - $210k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟢 Junior 🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor AWS Distributed Systems 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 mission of the T&S Foundations team is to deliver fast, secure, reliable, and scalable platforms that power Affirm's Trust and Safety business use cases. As a cornerstone of our organization, we manage critical foundational systems that support Identity management, underwriting and Fraud prevention at Affirm. We manage platforms such as - the external vendor integration platform, credit report services, user step-up service, counters and rate limiters platform, state machine libraries for risk evaluation, and more. Our focus is on developing foundational services that enhance efficiency and scalability in these areas. We are a close-knit team committed to building the kind of team we want to be part of while maintaining high-performance culture. We live by the following values: Make sure everyone is heard, make time for one another, do not be afraid to provide direct and constructive feedback, encourage questions, support growth, maintain strong communication, and create high-quality, scalable, self-service, and thoroughly tested products. • 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. • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field. • Base Pay Grade - L • Equity Grade - 6 • USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $160,000 - $210,000 • USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $142,000 - $192,000 • Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. 🎯 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