Staff Software Engineer (Merchant Experience)

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 SMB - Merchant Experience team builds and maintains Client UX and APIs in Affirm’s Merchant Portal and merchant Self Service onboarding flows. The goal of the team is to reduce complexity of merchant onboarding and augment merchants’ underwriting and monitoring capabilities, as well as expand their servicing capabilities through high quality tooling and useful, delightful features. You will work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to support the growth of the company by launching new products.

We are looking for a highly motivated staff software engineer to join us and help fulfill our vision. The work will be challenging due to the speed at which the market is growing, and the work involved will directly impact the growth trajectory of the merchant network. We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride!

What You’ll Do

• Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources.
• 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

• 8-10+ years of experience as a software engineer with 3+ years of technical leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
• A Self driven and motivated engineer who takes pride and ownership in navigating through ambiguities and solving complex technical/organizational problems.
• Expert in designing and building distributed systems and applications, real-time, scalable web services, REST APIs, developer portals. 
• Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages. 
• Proficiency in Unit test and IntegrationTest frameworks.
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Analytics and Business teams.
• A humble team-player who places the needs of others first and participates in …