Backend Engineer II — Remote, Impact & Growth

Affirm, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 94,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipends and wellness

Generous time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Contact Channels team within the Servicing AI Agents Engineering organization. You will tackle front-line customer needs, break down projects, and own features from design to delivery.

This role emphasizes collaboration with product, design, analytics, and engineering, building scalable APIs with Python or Kotlin, and delivering well-tested, maintainable code. Remote-first with flexible work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping web apps with React or Vue.
• Experience designing, developing and launching APIs at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Ability to write clear, well-tested and extensible code.
• Comfort navigating a large code base and participating in code reviews.
• Proactive ownership of growth and seeking feedback from team and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication with a global team.

Responsibilities

• Break down projects into tasks and deliver in phases.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics during ideation and decisions.
• Support operations, metrics and on-call efforts for team reliability.
• Contribute to team growth through interviewing and mentorship.

Skills

React

Vue

APIs at scale

Code reviews

Ownership & growth

Communication

Tools

Python

Kotlin

React

Vue

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Contact Channels team within the Servicing AI Agents Engineering organization. You will tackle front-line customer needs, break down projects, and own features from design to delivery.

This role emphasizes collaboration with product, design, analytics, and engineering, building scalable APIs with Python or Kotlin, and delivering well-tested, maintainable code. Remote-first with flexible work arrangements.