Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Recoveries)

Affirm, Inc.; Województwo mazowieckie; À distance; PLN 350 000 - 550 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Private healthcare (Lux Med Platinum)

Learning & development programs

Equity rewards (parent company)

Résumé du poste

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) for the Recoveries platform. This remote Poland role focuses on defining the technical direction as we scale decisioning, improve data integrity, and expand internationally.

You will own cross-team initiatives, drive reliability, and shape the architecture of critical recovery systems. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable technical choices, while mentoring peers and building scalable, observable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Backend systems design and development at scale using Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with batch, asynchronous or data-processing systems including workflows and reconciliation.
• Ability to architect solutions across complex systems and organizational boundaries.
• Deliver major features with high-quality, maintainable code.
• Thrive in ambiguity and understand large system architectures.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with global teams.

Responsabilités

• Set year-long technical strategy for your team and align with business goals.
• Drive cross-team initiatives to improve recovery strategies and customer experiences.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to ensure technical soundness and risk awareness.
• Advocate for scalable, reliable solutions and efficient operational processes.
• Ensure monitoring, incident response, and on-call readiness to keep systems running.
• Set and enforce coding standards and design reviews beyond your team.
• Mentor and develop engineers through feedback and leadership.

Connaissances

Backend design

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Description du poste

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Recoveries)

Remote Poland

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter - giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Recoveries team, part of ... gives the best possible customer experience. We do this both by integrating with external recovery partners and by building our own customer-facing experiences that give customers flexible ways to resolve their outstanding balances.

Our systems span the full recoveries lifecycle, including loan placement and recall, partner integrations, payments and remittances, reconciliation, bankruptcy workflows, and customer-facing recovery experiences. Recoveries operates at the intersection of engineering, product, risk, analytics, operations, finance, legal, and compliance, and our systems directly impact recovery outcomes while requiring a high degree of correctness, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help define the technical direction of the Recoveries platform as we scale our decisioning capabilities, expand internationally, strengthen our data integrity and reconciliation foundations, and build the next generation of recovery products.

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 help shape the evolution of the Recoveries platform, driving cross-team technical initiatives that optimize recovery strategies, enable flexible customer-facing experiences, and strengthen the reliability and scalability of our financial and partner integrations.
• 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, policies, 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

• You have a total of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• You are proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
• You have experience designing and operating correctness-sensitive batch, asynchronous, or data-processing systems, including scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling.
• You have experience architecting solutions across complex systems and organizational boundaries, and are comfortable understanding and driving changes outside your immediate area of ownership—including across backend services and customer-facing applications—to deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• 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.
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Total rewards

We believe the people building honest financial products at affirm should share in its success. That's why our total rewards are designed to support your health, growth, financial well-being, and future.

In service of our mission, we reward employees through a combination of base pay, equity (from parent company), and comprehensive benefits.

Base Pay Grade- P

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).

Base pay ranges and placement within those ranges are determined based on several factors, including role, experience, and job-related skills.

In addition to base pay, all employees in this role are eligible to receive equity from the parent company each year. This means as affirm's parent company grows, employees have the opportunity to share in that growth financially.

Affirm also provides flexible spending wallets to all employees for technology and wellbeing related needs, which are reimbursable up to 1390 zł per month.

In addition to your compensation, our comprehensive benefits are designed to support you and the people who matter most. Benefits include:

• Competitive paid time off, paid public holidays, and additional paid Away Days to rest and recharge.
• Comprehensive private healthcare through Lux Med's Platinum package.
• A MultiSport card to support your health and well-being.
• Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally.
• Family healthcare support through Maven and parental leave support through Parentaly.
• Mental well-being support through Lyra, including up to 12 confidential counseling or coaching sessions each year for you and your household members.
• Financial well-being support through Northstar, with unlimited access to Certified.
• Financial Advisors and planning tools at no cost to you.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that foster connection and inclusion.
• Eligibility for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law, role, and company policy.

Location - Remote Poland

The majority of our roles can be located anywhere in Poland.

**This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.** #LI-Remote

Remote-first with flexibility built inAffirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.

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