Staff Software Engineer, Merchant Engagement APIs

The Merchant Engagement APIs team at Affirm builds and maintains the backend APIs that power both merchants that use the Affirm Merchant Portal and those utilizing our platform partners’ integrations. The goal of the team is to build the underlying technology that empowers merchants of all sizes to efficiently sign, onboard, launch, and deepen their integration with Affirm.

The technology we are building strives to drive universal merchant adoption of Affirm as a payment option. We are striving to achieve ubiquity across online shopping by accelerating the merchant onboarding process, and empowering merchants to self-manage all aspects of their integration.

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.

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 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 is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages. 
• 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 the development of peers on the team.