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# Software Engineer I, Backend (Collections)

- **Company:** Affirm
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $57,000.0 - $87,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, System Availability, Backend, Kotlin, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/affirm/jobs/7807506003

## About the Role

* You have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using 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.

## Description

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


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