Senior Software Engineer

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.

The Repayments Platform team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Backend development. The team is located entirely in Europe with Poland as our base of operations.

This role requires a high level of technical capability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication and a creative mindset. You’ll start by leading the technical initiatives of one of our teams while slowly expanding your area of responsibility with the end goal of leading several teams initiatives. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, don’t hesitate and apply now!

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs.
• Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow. Provide them with the right context and train them to take ownership of their respective pieces of our initiatives.
• Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions.
• Partner with other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems.
• Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

What We Look For

• +7 years of development experience.
• Experience leading design and execution and delivery of backend software projects.
• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure , GCP etc;.
• Experience with designing and owning highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems using cloud storage services.
• Strong understanding of CS fundamentals such as Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems, algorithms, and data structures. Hands-on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala).
• Experience building software for database administration or experience with devops for databases is a plus.
• Working knowledge of OLAP systems like Snowflake, Redshift , BigQuery and Table formats like Apache Iceberg , HUDI, Delta Lake is a plus.
• Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset.
• Machine learning experience is a bonus but it’s not required.
• At least one of:
  - Experience working in Database, SRE, or Infrastructure teams in the past, or have operated a distributed data storage system such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, or others.
  - Experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We use technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX, but we are always looking for new technologies to adopt.

Compensation & Benefits

• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Generous time off policies 
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave
• Robust health benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

Pay Grade - ESP31