Software Engineer II, Backend (Decisions Orchestration)

Affirm

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $165,000–$225,000 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $144,000–$214,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $195k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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About Affirm

Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending

Affirm currently has 56 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $195,000–$255,000 across 54 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer II, Backend (Decisions Orchestration)

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Software Engineer II, Backend (Decisions Orchestration) joins the team to design and implement the next generation of the Checkout Platform. This role involves building financial products and features that provide users with new levels of accessibility and flexibility. Day-to-day responsibilities include designing and implementing new APIs and microservice interfaces to manage user transactions while improving the performance and reliability of systems driving the purchasing journey. The engineer will own components of checkout systems, define long-term system health, and collaborate across the organization to improve engineering standards and tooling. The technical stack includes Python, Kotlin, RPC, Redis, MySQL, AWS, and Github. This role solves the technical problem of managing complex transaction flows and building scalable financial services within a high-volume checkout environment.

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Skills

Python Kotlin RPC Redis MySQL AWS GitHub API’s Testing

What you'll do

Design and implement new APIs and microservice interfaces to manage user transactions.
Build out financial products and features to increase user accessibility and flexibility.
Improve the performance and reliability of systems driving the user purchase journey.
Own specific components of checkout systems and define their long-term health.
Develop detailed project definitions and drive technical decisions within the team.
Develop, test, and ship high-quality software at scale.
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the checkout platform.

What we're looking for

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
You must have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale.
You must be able to design and implement APIs and microservice interfaces.
You must be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.
You must be able to work with product and engineering leaders to develop project definitions and drive technical decisions.
You must be able to collaborate with engineers across the organization to build platform components.
You must be able to provide feedback to peers to help the team grow.
You must be able to use Python, Kotlin, RPC, Redis, MySQL, AWS, and Github.

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