[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Backend @Affirm

Role Description

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 Merchant Data Platform is a backend, foundational service at Affirm. We are responsible for merchant data and identity across all merchant touchpoints. Our checkout-critical platform serves millions of requests per day, supports the onboarding of merchants across all onboarding touchpoints, and maintains strict availability and latency SLAs given the criticality of the service. Further, the team maintains sophisticated pipelines that enrich our datasets for the purposes of merchant identification, risk analysis, and fraud detection.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our fully remote team based in Europe.

What You'll Do

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Ensure that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
• Participate in ideation, articulate technical constraints, and partner on decisions that consider risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology, or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.
• Mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
• Own the availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
• Participate in an on-call rotation as a requirement.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale; proficient in Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Expert at synthesizing complex business products and technical requirements to produce high-quality system designs and software.
• Comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback through code reviews.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, with developed tools and practices for safe modifications.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth, proactively seeking feedback from team, manager, and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.

Requirements

• Base Pay Grade: N
• Equity Grade: 4
• Base pay range per year: €85,000 - €115,000

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle.
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Parental benefits.
• Employee Resource & Community Groups.
• Visa sponsorship available for this role, requiring someone based in Spain.
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.