Software Engineer II, Machine Learning – Feature Platform

Affirm

Software Engineer II at Affirm developing ML features and enhancing platform performance through innovative solutions. Collaborating with global teams to create seamless service experiences and support growth.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $165,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly
Build a delightful, self-serve platform for developing and serving data for machine learning and decisioning.
Direct impact on the everyday lives and capabilities for our end users: MLEs, Analysts, and decisioning teams
Own multiple artifacts that in aggregate own the end-to-end flows for features including feature creation, exploration, and serving

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin.
You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
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, your manager, and your stakeholders.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonKotlinbackend systemsdistributed systemsdebuggingcode reviewswell tested codeextensible codefeature creationfeature exploration

Soft Skills

communication skillscollaborationownershipproactive feedbackproblem-solving