Software Engineer, Backend (Upfunnel Messaging)

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:

1. Improve the consumer experience by surfacing timely, relevant and personalized messaging during their shopping journey
2. 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