Backend Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Role overview

You’ll join Affirm as a Backend Software Engineer II on the AI Agents engineering team. You will help build a conversational first point of contact for customers by partnering with an omnichannel AI agent vendor and delivering backend services that support the AI agent experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Analytics across the product development lifecycle.
• Support operations and availability by creating and monitoring metrics, and escalating issues when needed.
• Take ownership of backend projects and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to team growth and community by participating in activities like the interview process.
• Improve engineering quality through debugging, code reviews, and engineering collaboration.

Requirements

• Experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Ability to design, develop, and launch APIs at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Comfortable working in a large codebase: debugging others’ code and providing constructive code review feedback.
• Strong execution: turn business problems into solutions spanning multiple components, producing well-tested, extensible code.
• Demonstrated ownership of growth: proactively seeking feedback from teammates, managers, and stakeholders.
• 1.5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication for collaboration with a global engineering team.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with AI-agent or conversational platforms (implied by the AI Agents team context).