[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Card Acquisition) @Affirm

Role Description

Affirm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Card Acquisition team within the Consumer org. The team plays a critical role in shaping the first experience customers have with Affirm—building trust, clarity, and value from the very first interaction. As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for defining long-term technical strategy, mentoring senior engineers, and acting as a force multiplier through your technical depth, operational excellence, and ability to navigate ambiguity.

You'll work at the intersection of product, design, and engineering to build polished, performant, and accessible user experiences that directly impact conversion, retention, and business growth.

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, and analytics.
• Participate in ideation, articulate technical constraints, and partner on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
• Participate in an on-call rotation as a requirement.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Ability to write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• 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.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Requirements

• Base Pay Grade: N
• Equity Grade: 4
• Base pay range per year: 308,000 zł - 428,000 zł

Benefits

• 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.
• This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy.
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

Company Description

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.