Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform

buscojobs España; Huelva; A distancia; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Infrastructure Platform team in Spain. This remote role focuses on ensuring the reliability and operational efficiency of distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend systems and a passion for automation and incident response. You will lead projects, collaborate with product teams, and develop talent within your team. The company offers competitive benefits, including health coverage and flexible spending wallets.

Servicios

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Away Days

Parental leave

Employee Resource & Community Groups

Formación

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience in designing and launching backend systems at scale.

Responsabilidades

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership.

Conocimientos

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

React

Vue

Incident Response

Automation

Communication

Descripción del empleo

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform

Remote Spain

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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platform Engineering team, ensuring the reliability, availability, and operational efficiency of Affirm’s distributed systems. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in highly scalable, cloud-native environments, focusing on incident response, observability, automation, and system resilience.

As part of the Platform, Reliability and Infrastructure Operations group, you will work on proactive failure mitigation, operational tooling, service scaling strategies, and on-call effectiveness to ensure low-latency, highly available services across Affirm's compute, storage, CI / CD, and observability stacks.

Affirm is scaling fast, and this role will help ensure our platform’s resilience as we keep operating across multiple regions!

What You'll Do :

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• You will 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.
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.

What We Look For :

• You have a total of 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• You are experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• You have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Ensure high availability (HA) and resilience of critical services through runbooks, incident response strategies, and post-mortem analysis.
• Partner with Observability and Reliability teams to proactively detect and mitigate potential outages.
• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Automate operational tasks, deployments, failover processes, and scaling strategies to reduce manual intervention.
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Partner closely with Storage & Replication, Cloud, CI / CD, and Security teams to ensure Affirm’s infrastructure meets high operational standards.
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Base Pay Grade - N

Equity Grade - 4

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

Additional benefits include :

• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Parental leave
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

Location - Remote Spain

We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role.

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.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include :

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• 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

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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