Software Engineer, Backend (Upfunnel Messaging)

Job title: Software Engineer, Backend (Upfunnel Messaging)

Company: Affirm

Job 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 Upfunnel Messaging team at Affirm builds and maintains the platform for serving promotional messaging on partner merchant sites and affirm.js, our javascript library for merchant site integration. Our consumer artifacts are heavily used and represent the highest trafficked systems at Affirm; O(10k) merchants use it daily, with O(100M) requests every day.The goal of the team is two-fold: * Improve the consumer experience by surfacing timely, relevant and personalized messaging during their shopping journey

• Reduce complexity of merchant integration and improve merchants’ underwriting and monitoring capabilities through high quality tooling and useful, delightful features.

We aim to turn Upfunnel Messaging into a turnkey service, and to empower merchants to optimize and customize all aspects of their messaging strategy, enabling them to grow their business through a data centric approach.We are looking for a motivated Software Engineer to join us and help accomplish that mission. Given the scale at which our team operates, your work will be challenging, and will directly impact Affirm’s bottom line.What you’ll do

• Build applications with a focus on scalability, performance, monitoring, and security.
• Partner with Tech leads to drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
• Actively participate in making their team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.

What we look for

• 1-2 years of experience as a software engineer
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Analytics and Business teams.
• Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
• A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in the development of peers on the team.
• Engineering skills in programming languages such as Python, Kotlin, Javascript and data manipulation skills like SQL
• Experience tuning caching systems such as Content Delivery Networks, Redis is a plus

Base Pay Grade – JEquity Grade – 4Employees 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.Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).CAN base pay range per year: $102,000- $142,000 CADLocation: Remote – Canada#LI-RemoteAffirm 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. 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.We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• 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

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.By clicking “Submit Application,” you acknowledge that you have read the for applicants within the United States, the for applicants applying from Poland, the for applicants applying from Spain, or the for applicants applying from the United Kingdom, and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.

Expected salary: $102000 – 142000 per year

Location: Canada

Job date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 07:57:01 GMT

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