Software Engineer I, Backend (Collections)

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 Collections team, as part of the Repayments area, is on a mission to build a robust platform that will maximize the recovery of delinquent users by sending the right message to the right people at the right time, while monitoring and detecting problems and ensuring high reliability of the engineering systems. Collaborating closely with our product managers, backbook risk teams and other engineering teams , you will effectively manage loans throughout the delinquency phase of their lifecycle and develop and implement recovery strategies.

We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer to build the next generation platform solutions that will allow us to manage our constantly growing volume while maintaining high availability and reliability of the systems. You will work closely with your team mates in the Collections team and Product to build robust collections solutions which will enable us to keep our loans portfolio healthy and help our customers pay on time and recover from any delays.

What You'll Do

With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals.

On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work.

You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime.

You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities

What We Look For

You have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scal