# Affirm

- **Answer**: Affirm builds mostly with Python, Kotlin, SQL, JavaScript. Its stack also includes AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, React.js. Python is named in 266 of the 348 job postings Affirm published in the last 12 months (76%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Affirm, updated Nov 12, 2026.
- **Window days**: 365
- **Postings analysed**: 348
- **Open postings**: 143
- **Technologies in use**: 155
- **Modernity score**: 83
- **Ai adoption**: yes
- **License**: CC BY-SA 4.0

## Company

- **Id**: 572
- **Name**: Affirm
- **Domain**: affirm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/affirm>

## Technologies

- **Python** — Layer: languages; Postings: 266; Share: 0.7644; Required: 255; Open postings: 105; First seen: 2025-09-04
- **Kotlin** — Layer: languages; Postings: 199; Share: 0.5718; Required: 195; Open postings: 77; First seen: 2025-09-04
- **AWS** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 181; Share: 0.5201; Required: 176; Open postings: 65; First seen: 2025-09-04
- **Kubernetes** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 159; Share: 0.4569; Required: 157; Open postings: 61; First seen: 2025-09-04
- **MySQL** — Layer: data; Postings: 144; Share: 0.4138; Required: 142; Open postings: 49; First seen: 2025-09-04
- **SQL** — Layer: languages; Postings: 70; Share: 0.2011; Required: 64; Open postings: 27; First seen: 2026-02-11
- **JavaScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 57; Share: 0.1638; Required: 34; Open postings: 33; First seen: 2026-02-02
- **Declarative UI** — Layer: practices; Postings: 55; Share: 0.158; Required: 55; Open postings: 29; First seen: 2025-09-12
- **Spark** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 54; Share: 0.1552; Required: 51; Open postings: 25; First seen: 2025-09-04
- **React.js** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 49; Share: 0.1408; Required: 21; Open postings: 27; First seen: 2026-02-02
- **CI/CD** — Layer: practices; Postings: 46; Share: 0.1322; Required: 46; Open postings: 12; First seen: 2026-03-18
- **AI Agents** — Layer: practices; Postings: 45; Share: 0.1293; Required: 45; Open postings: 21; First seen: 2026-03-26
- **Machine Learning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 38; Share: 0.1092; Required: 36; Open postings: 15; First seen: 2025-12-10
- **React Native** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 34; Share: 0.0977; Required: 32; Open postings: 20; First seen: 2026-02-02
- **Snowflake** — Layer: data; Postings: 31; Share: 0.0891; Required: 28; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-03-26
- **Cursor** — Layer: tools; Postings: 30; Share: 0.0862; Required: 25; Open postings: 10; First seen: 2026-02-11
- **TypeScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 29; Share: 0.0833; Required: 29; Open postings: 14; First seen: 2026-02-05
- **Terraform** — Layer: tools; Postings: 27; Share: 0.0776; Required: 22; Open postings: 15; First seen: 2026-04-09
- **GitHub** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 24; Share: 0.069; Required: 24; Open postings: 10; First seen: 2026-04-09
- **Claude Code** — Layer: tools; Postings: 24; Share: 0.069; Required: 22; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2026-02-11
- **Claude** — Layer: ai; Postings: 23; Share: 0.0661; Required: 20; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-02-11
- **Vue.js** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 19; Share: 0.0546; Required: 19; Open postings: 11; First seen: 2026-03-18
- **Platform Engineering** — Layer: practices; Postings: 18; Share: 0.0517; Required: 18; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-04-14
- **Java** — Layer: languages; Postings: 18; Share: 0.0517; Required: 16; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-03-20
- **dbt** — Layer: tools; Postings: 16; Share: 0.046; Required: 16; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-05-11
- **LLM** — Layer: ai; Postings: 15; Share: 0.0431; Required: 15; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-05-25
- **Azure** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 15; Share: 0.0431; Required: 13; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-03-20
- **Buildkite** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 13; Share: 0.0374; Required: 13; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-04-09
- **LLM Guardrails** — Layer: practices; Postings: 13; Share: 0.0374; Required: 11; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-06-17
- **Rest API** — Layer: tools; Postings: 12; Share: 0.0345; Required: 12; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-06-24
- **Okta** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 11; Share: 0.0316; Required: 10; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-04-09
- **DynamoDB** — Layer: data; Postings: 10; Share: 0.0287; Required: 10; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-05-07
- **Databricks** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 10; Share: 0.0287; Required: 7; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-07-10
- **Auth0** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0259; Required: 9; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-04-09
- **Git** — Layer: tools; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0259; Required: 9; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-06-17
- **Kubeflow** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0259; Required: 8; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2025-12-10
- **XGBoost** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0259; Required: 8; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2025-12-10
- **IAM** — Layer: practices; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0259; Required: 7; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-06-05
- **Docker** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.023; Required: 8; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-05-12
- **Flink** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 8; Share: 0.023; Required: 8; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-08-05
- **MLFlow** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 8; Share: 0.023; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-12-10
- **PostgreSQL** — Layer: data; Postings: 8; Share: 0.023; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-07-20
- **Redis** — Layer: data; Postings: 8; Share: 0.023; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-08-10
- **Figma** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0201; Required: 7; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-07-31
- **LightGBM** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0201; Required: 7; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-04-21
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Layer: practices; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0201; Required: 7; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-10-08
- **Apache Kafka** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0201; Required: 6; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-09-14
- **Ray** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0201; Required: 6; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2025-12-10
- **Agentic Workflows** — Layer: practices; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0172; Required: 6; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-07-27
- **Amazon EKS** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0172; Required: 6; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-05-11
- … 105 more in the JSON form

## Changes

### First appeared

- **ArgoCD** — First seen: 2026-10-30
- **Self-Healing** — First seen: 2026-10-30
- **SIEM** — First seen: 2026-10-30
- **OpenTelemetry** — First seen: 2026-10-28
- **AWS Bedrock** — First seen: 2026-10-26
- **LiteLLM** — First seen: 2026-10-26
- **Amazon EC2** — First seen: 2026-10-21
- **Karpenter** — First seen: 2026-10-21

### Rising

- **JavaScript** — Share from: 11; Share to: 19
- **React.js** — Share from: 9; Share to: 17
- **Vue.js** — Share from: 2; Share to: 8
- **React Native** — Share from: 7; Share to: 11
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Share from: 0; Share to: 4
- **Apache Kafka** — Share from: 0; Share to: 4
- **Function Calling** — Share from: 0; Share to: 3
- **Model Context Protocol** — Share from: 0; Share to: 3

### Falling

- **Spark** — Share from: 21; Share to: 10
- **CI/CD** — Share from: 17; Share to: 6
- **Snowflake** — Share from: 14; Share to: 5
- **Platform Engineering** — Share from: 9; Share to: 1
- **Machine Learning** — Share from: 14; Share to: 9
- **Cursor** — Share from: 10; Share to: 5
- **Java** — Share from: 6; Share to: 2
- **dbt** — Share from: 7; Share to: 3

### Not seen 180d

- **Helm** — Last seen: 2026-05-12
- **Kibana** — Last seen: 2026-03-26
- **Amazon S3** — Last seen: 2026-05-11
- **Chaos Engineering** — Last seen: 2026-04-30
- **Rspack** — Last seen: 2026-04-23
- **Turborepo** — Last seen: 2026-04-23
- **Vite** — Last seen: 2026-04-23
- **gRPC** — Last seen: 2026-03-26

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