Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger)

Affirm; Poland; Remote; PLN 728,000 - 1,002,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set technical strategy and ensure operations for backend systems. You will collaborate with various teams and work on accounting infrastructure, requiring extensive experience with backend systems. This remote role offers a competitive salary range of $200,000 - $275,000 depending on location.

Benefits

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedule

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with data processing pipelines and optimizing performance.
• Strong financial acumen with experience building accounting systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team with business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate with product management and design to ensure sustainability.
• Ensure operations and availability for your team's systems.

Skills

Backend systems design

Python or Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Data processing pipelines

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

ETL systems

Job description

Overview

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger) – 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.

The Ledger Engineering team maintains Affirm's financial source of truth through the loans ledger system. We design and operate critical accounting infrastructure that tracks all financial events from authorization through settlement. Our team maintains core ledger systems that serve as Affirm's financial backbone, runs daily processing pipelines with strict SLAs, ensures data integrity for financial reporting, audits, and compliance, creates ETLs that deliver reconciled accounting data to downstream teams, and supports cross-functional financial modeling and accounting needs. We work closely with Finance, Accounting, Capital Markets, and other engineering teams to ensure accuracy in Affirm's financial systems.

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.

What We Look For

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• An extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• Strong financial acumen with experience building systems that handle accounting data and financial transactions with high precision and reliability.
• Experience with data processing pipelines and ETL systems, with the ability to optimize performance of high-volume data workflows while maintaining accuracy.
• 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.
• Thrives in ambiguity, and is comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Growth and impact trajectory that demonstrates mastery in gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Benefits & Workplace

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - USA 13
• Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
• 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
• Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
• Key benefits: health care coverage, flexible spending wallets, time off, ESPP, and more as part of the total compensation package.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some 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
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

Affirm is dedicated to providing an inclusive interview experience for all. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Affirm is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under applicable law.

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