Software Engineer II, Fullstack (Ads Platform)

Affirm; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm in Canada is looking for a software engineer to join our growing team. You will break down large projects into actionable tasks, deliver in phases, and collaborate with teammates to ensure timely results.

You will design, develop, and deploy APIs at scale using Python or Kotlin, and ship web applications with React. You’ll participate in code reviews, debugging, and on-call work, while owning your growth and contributing to team learning.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience shipping web apps with React.
• Experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Ability to navigate a large codebase, debug, and provide feedback via code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Break down projects into tasks, deliver in phases, and collaborate to ensure timely delivery.
• Support product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics, discussing constraints and trade-offs.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalate when needed, and support on-call efforts.
• Contribute to team growth through activities such as interview participation.

Skills

React

API design

Python

Kotlin

Code reviews

Debugging

Ownership growth

Job description

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

Our Marketplace is continually evolving to deliver a deeply personalized shopping experience that seamlessly links consumers with merchant partners. By leveraging machine learning alongside rich consumer and merchant data, we aim to simplify and streamline the customer journey around everyday and major purchases with tailored brands, products, deals, and offers. In tandem, we are advancing our Ads Platform which is a key technology that empowers merchant partners to strategically deploy their budgets and reach targeted consumers for maximum incremental 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 shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React.
• You have experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• 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,