Software Engineer II, Backend (Credit Decisioning)

Affirm; San Juan de Terranova; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is looking for a Software Engineer in San Juan de Terranova, Canada. The ideal candidate should have 1.5+ years of experience in backend systems and be proficient in Python or Kotlin. Responsibilities including collaborating with teams, managing project tasks, and supporting system operations. This role offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health care coverage and flexible spending accounts.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems.
• Ability to write clear, well-tested, and extensible code.

Responsibilities

• Break down projects into tasks and deliver them in phases.
• Collaborate in the product development lifecycle.
• Monitor metrics and support on-call efforts.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Proficiency in Python or Kotlin

Experience with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Job description

Overview

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 Credit Decisioning team is essential to every transaction at Affirm, providing scalable underwriting decisions for integrated point-of-sale (POS) merchants and wallet platforms across the US, Canada, and the UK.

This specific role is within the Credit Core sub-team, which focuses on building the foundations and credit levers for scaling our underwriting and providing responsible access to credit. A key part of this team’s work involves developing new underwriting features and products to expand Affirm’s product offerings and enable sustainable growth.

Working closely with cross-functional partners in Engineering, ML, Risk, Analytics, Product, and Capital, this role offers a direct opportunity to work on launches that have a significant business impact.

What You’ll Do

• With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on‑call efforts.
• You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.

What We Look For

• You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin.
• You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code.
• You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Pay Grade - L

Equity Grade - 5

Benefits

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health care coverage – Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP – An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

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