Staff Software Engineer, Back-end (Identity Engineering)

Affirm; España; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A technology financial services company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical strategy and collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle. This remote position in Spain requires at least 8 years of experience in backend system design and development using Python or Kotlin. The firm offers comprehensive health benefits, flexible spending accounts, equity, and a supportive work culture.

Servicios

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle

Competitive vacation and holiday time

Employee stock purchase plan

Formación

• 8+ years of experience designing and launching backend systems.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long scale.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics.
• Act as a force-multiplier through definition and advocacy of solutions.
• Ensure team operations and availability.

Conocimientos

Backend systems design and development

Python or Kotlin

Distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes

Collaborative communication skills

Descripción del empleo

Staff Software Engineer, Back-end (Identity Engineering)

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.

Identity International is a newly established team created to accelerate Affirm’s international expansion - one of the company’s top priorities. Our vision is to become a trusted, self-sufficient team that drives customer identity capabilities end-to-end across international markets.

The team’s scope includes building and expanding Identity Data Management, Verification, and Decisioning capabilities for Europe, evaluating and integrating third-party KYC vendors, and ensuring alignment with global platform and operational standards. We operate at the intersection of technical depth, regulatory complexity, and cross-geo collaboration, making this an exciting opportunity for engineers who want to shape one of Affirm’s foundational processes.

By joining the team, you will directly influence how Affirm operates Identity in international markets - a challenge that is critical for both business growth and customer trust.

What You'll Do:

• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting 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 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.

Base Pay Grade- P

Equity Grade- 6

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
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

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

Location - Remote Spain

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

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