Affirm
Software Engineer II, Backend (Capital Orchestration)
About this role
Join Affirm's Capital Orchestration team as a Backend Software Engineer II to build and maintain the platform that manages liquidity operations, asset collateralization, and transaction reconciliation across multiple systems. You'll develop scalable infrastructure handling billions in monthly collateral movement while collaborating with product, design, and business teams to ensure Affirm can originate loans and grow effectively.
What you'll do
- Build transaction reconciliation platform across systems, partners, and cash movements
- Design and integrate data pipelines from diverse products and systems
- Develop user-facing experiences for business operations workflows
- Partner with engineers on code quality, design reviews, and testing improvements
- Collaborate with product and business teams to architect robust capital systems
- Support operational metrics, monitoring, and on-call responsibilities
What they're looking for
- Backend development and event/batch processing
- Full stack web development fundamentals
- Python, JavaScript/React, SQL
- Data pipeline tools (Airflow, Spark)
- System design and scalability
- Code review and debugging
- Cross-team communication
- Agentic coding
Benefits
- Flexible spending wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
- Away Days wellness time off
- Learning and development programs
- Parental benefits
- Equity compensation
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Affirm
Affirm builds financial infrastructure and platforms that power point-of-sale lending, merchant operations, card issuance, and capital management at scale. The company is hiring backend engineers, AI solutions engineers, and infrastructure specialists to develop reliable, scalable systems for merchant platforms, payment processing, reliability monitoring, and capital orchestration.
- Website
- affirm.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience building data pipelines at scale. What systems have you integrated, and how did you handle data consistency across multiple sources?
- Describe a time when you had to break down a complex project into phases and coordinate with multiple teams. How did you manage dependencies and ensure timely delivery?