Software Engineer II, Full-Stack (Marketplace Performance)

About Affirm

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.

About the Team

The Marketplace Performance team in the Direct to Consumer org builds the discovery platforms behind Affirm's deals feed, affiliates, payment attribution and merchandising systems. Our mission is to help shoppers find the right merchant and financing for their needs.

What You'll Do

• Break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work
• 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
• Contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process
• Ship features that make it faster and easier for shoppers to find the right merchant and financing for their needs
• Write clean and well-tested code, review PRs, and ship new functionality iteratively

What We Look For

• 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue
• Experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Ability to take a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and execute on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
• Comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
• Demonstrated ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience