Software Engineer II, Backend (Capital Orchestration)

About the role

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. We are looking for a passionate engineer to join our Capital Orchestration team.

Responsibilities

• Build a foundational platform enabling us to reconcile each transaction across systems, partners, and cash movements.
• Build and integrate data pipelines from a variety of products and systems.
• Build intuitive and thoughtful user experiences to streamline the workflows of our business counterparts.
• Develop a deep understanding of the capital systems which power and fund Affirm.
• Partner with engineers on the team to help improve designs, code quality, and testing.
• Collaborate with product managers and business counterparts to design best-in-class systems and processes.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Fluency in full stack web development, back end development, event processing, or batch processing.
• Experience in designing, building, launching, and maintaining products at scale.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency with agentic coding.
• Knowledge of Python, JavaScript/React, Airflow, Spark, Horizon Portal, and SQL is a plus.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Someone who is proactive, organized, curious, and a self-starter.

Skills

• Python
• Javascript/React
• Airflow
• Spark
• Horizon Portal
• SQL

Benefits

• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

Pay

Pay Grade - L
Equity Grade - 6
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Schedule

The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.