Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Code to Environments)

Affirm; Poland; Remote; PLN 728,000 - 911,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking a remote backend engineer with over 8 years of experience in designing and launching backend systems. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy, collaborating with product teams, and managing distributed systems using AWS. Offers competitive compensation and an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Health care coverage for you and your dependents

Flexible Spending Wallets for various expenses

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems.
• Proven ability to gather and iterate on feedback from peers.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle.
• Act as a force-multiplier through technical advocacy.

Skills

Backend system design

Python or Kotlin

AWS (GCP, Azure)

Containerization and Kubernetes

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

Remote US

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.

What You'll Do

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and connect it to critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through the definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own your team’s operations and availability by ensuring monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting support to keep the lights on and on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by conducting high-quality code reviews and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks; increase collaboration through pair programming and knowledge sharing.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Proven ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers to drive growth and impact.
• Extensive experience supporting highly available distributed systems using AWS (GCP, Azure), distributed databases, containerization, and Kubernetes; experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
• Experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a defined technical and execution plan; high-quality, maintainable code.
• Comfort with ambiguity, from language idioms to architecture of large systems, to deeply understand how they work.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global remote engineering team.
• Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments; experience with ephemeral environments is a bonus.
• Equivalent practical experience or Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Compensation & Location

Base Pay Grade: P

Equity Grade: 13

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000

Location: Remote - US

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of roles are remote and you can work from anywhere in the country of employment. Some roles may require occasional office work.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity, stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ESPP - employee stock purchase plan

We are committed to an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities, and provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.