Affirm Tech Blog

Authors: Rahul Bansal, Srikanth Raju, Greg Sterin, Ankit Singh

Authors: Kumaraguru Guhan, Ben Porter, Evan Livingston

Authors: Rahul Bansal , Honglin Zhang and Yelena Wu

Author: Rahul Bansal, Distinguished Engineer at Affirm

Overview

Introduction

Keeping Affirm’s credit network running sustainably depends on our ability to accurately estimate the performance of our loans. We measure…

After my Xth all-male engineering interview panel, I was talking with another engineer about how frustrating this experience was when she…

This is the second of two blog posts that we’re publishing alongside our career framework for engineering growth at Affirm. You can read…

One of Affirm’s core values is “People come first”, which we live out not only in the way that we conduct business and treat our customers…

At Affirm, we’re building a financial network that improves transactions across the entire retail ecosystem. In accordance with our core…

Amazon was impressed by the infrastructure framework built by Affirm’s Platform Engineering team. So much so that they approached Greg…

Affirm’s mission is to deliver honest financial products that improve lives. To maximize the impact of our products we need to make them…

TL;DR: At Affirm, we can’t know if someone would have repaid a loan we didn’t make. This makes it tricky, but not impossible, to evaluate…

Affirm invests in research and engineering efforts to develop ML models that are interpretable.

Affirm’s mobile app feature development is driven by data. Most changes introduced in our mobile apps are A/B tested, meaning that users…

At the beginning of 2019, Engineering@Affirm set aggressive performance goals for our react apps and affirm.js to improve user experience…

Allen Cheung, Senior Director of Engineering, chatted with us for our next Affirmer Spotlight to discuss how his team best serves the…

As infrastructure grows, it’s critical to have observability into the performance and reliability of the system in order to identify any…

As a financial technology company, the integrity and availability of our data is critical in providing many of our services, like…

Geddes Munson, Senior Director of Partner Engineering, joined us for our next Affirmer Spotlight to discuss his experience working on a…

As a financial technology company, we handle a variety of sensitive information that our customers share with us. We take data security…

Up next in our Affirmer Spotlight series, we connected with Elaine Arbaugh from our Platform Engineering team. She gives us a rundown of…