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Software Engineer II, Backend (Decisions Orchestration)

Affirm· Checkout
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Remote$165k - $225kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Backend Software Engineer to build and enhance Affirm’s Checkout Platform, delivering scalable APIs and microservices for the checkout experience with a focus on performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Work with technical leaders in the team to design and implement insightful forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems
  • Actively own components of checkout systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
  • Collaborate with engineers within our team and across the organization to build the next generation of the checkout platform
  • Learn and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the checkout platform

Qualifications

  • Take Ownership. You enjoy working with product and engineering leaders to develop detailed project definitions, and drive technical decisions within your team
  • Execute. You have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale
  • Collaborate. You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing. If anything, you trend towards over-communication
  • Build Teams. You grow with engineers around you through sharing your learnings and providing feedback to your peers that will help the team grow
  • Customer-centric mentality. You are empathetic to the user experience and thoughtful about what we can do to make it better
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Skills

Required:PythonKotlinRPCRedisMySQLAWSGithub

Benefits

  • Health coverage at no cost: 100% of premiums for employees and dependents
  • Spending stipends: Monthly stipends for tech setup and health/wellness options
  • Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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