Remote Software Engineer II — React & API Focus (Equity)

Affirm

Toronto

Remote

CAD 133,000 - 183,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is a remote-first company hiring a software engineer in Canada. This role focuses on shipping web apps with React, designing scalable APIs in Python or Kotlin, and delivering well-structured, testable code.

You’ll collaborate across product, design and analytics, own your growth, and participate in interviewing during team growth. The team values strong communication and the ability to operate across a large codebase, with a pay range reflecting Canadian markets and location flexibility

Qualifications

1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
Experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React.
Experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Ability to write clear, well-tested, extensible code across multiple components.
Comfort navigating a large code base and performing code reviews.
Proactive about growth, seeking feedback from team and stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication for global collaboration.

Responsibilities

Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver in phases.
Collaborate with product management, design & analytics during ideation and decision-making.
Create and monitor metrics; support on-call and keep-the-lights-on efforts.
Contribute to team community through growth activities, including participation in interviews.