Affirm - San Francisco, CA
posted 8 days ago
About the position
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. As an intern at Affirm, you will be a contributing member of our outstanding engineering team, and as such you will work on meaningful projects and frequently ship code. Recent grads and past interns have built a real-time high-throughput data processing pipeline, developed an extensive automated testing framework, and built out our proprietary financial platform that is central to our long term company mission. We are excited to meet and consider strong students for our 12-16 week internships. We are a dynamic organization that is happy to tailor projects to your skills, and we will work with you throughout the interview process to determine which team will be best for you.
Responsibilities
- Develop and ship a project and verify that it works in production.
- Collaborate with your mentor and manager to spec a project that will best contribute to your team.
- Ship code and monitor the deployment of your work.
- Work closely with a dedicated mentor who will provide advice and ensure the success of your project.
- Present your work to the entire engineering organization at the end of the internship.
Requirements
- Passion and dedication to changing consumer banking for the better
- Experience with Python, C/C++ or Java
- Frontend experience in WebApps/JavaScript/AngularJS/React
- Strong communication skills
- Experience with object oriented programming
- Deployment and testing frameworks
- API development/documentation
- AWS or other PaaS frameworks
Benefits
- 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
