Staff Backend Engineer — Identity Platforms (Remote Poland)

Affirm, Inc.; Poland; Remote; PLN 523,000 - 747,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity International) to set technical strategy and own critical backend systems, with focus on reliability and scale from Poland.

You will collaborate across product, design, and analytics, and help-expand Identity services globally while maintaining compliance and security. This remote role emphasizes architecture, performance, and cross-functional impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing backend systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Strong coding standards and ability to influence architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics to ensure sustainability and risk management.
• Advocate for scalable technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own your team’s on-call, monitoring and incident playbooks to keep systems reliable.
• Mentor teammates and drive culture of quality and ownership.
• Help develop talent through feedback and example.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity International) to set technical strategy and own critical backend systems, with focus on reliability and scale from Poland.

You will collaborate across product, design, and analytics, and help-expand Identity services globally while maintaining compliance and security. This remote role emphasizes architecture, performance, and cross-functional impact.