Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal reporting)

5 months ago
Contract
Lead
Software Development
Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that help the team execute effectively.
  • Own team operations and service availability, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
  • Establish code review and design standards and promote a culture of quality and ownership across the team.
  • Share technical perspective through writing and tech talks to influence practices beyond the immediate team.
  • Develop team members by providing feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
  • Build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure that support funding of Affirm loans.
  • Work with Product and Capital Markets teams to implement complex financial structures, integrations, and reporting.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • Extensive experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong knowledge of Spark and its inner workings.
  • Experience with task orchestration systems such as Airflow or Temporal is preferred.
  • Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating functionality through clear technical and execution planning.
  • Ability to write high-quality code that is easy for others to understand and use.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and moving between low-level implementation details and large-scale architecture.
  • Demonstrated ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
  • Eligible to work under a Contract of Employment in Poland and work remotely within Poland.

Benefits

  • Base pay range of 358,000 zł - 458,000 zł per year.
  • Potential equity rewards and an equity grade of Poland 5.
  • Monthly stipends and Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage, plus dental and vision for employees and dependents.
  • Away Days and competitive vacation and holiday time off to rest and recharge.
  • Learning and Development programs.
  • Parental benefits.
  • Employee Resource and Community Groups.
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with shares available at a discount.

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