Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Card)

Affirm; Spain (TX); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Spending Wallets for tech,食品,

Away Days - wellness days to take off

Employee Resource & Community Groups

Job summary

Affirm is hiring a senior software engineer to lead EU card engineering. You will own architecture across cards and EU relationships, building scalable backend systems and working across product, design and analytics to ensure sustainable technical outcomes.

You will guide the team on a year-long technical strategy, foster code quality, and drive on-call readiness. This role focuses on Spain-based operations with visa sponsorship available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Proven ability to deliver major features and plan execution.
• Comfort with moving from low-level details to large system architecture.
• Strong collaboration and communication with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team over a year and align with business goals.
• Lead software engineering for all EU cards.
• Collaborate across product, design and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and risk management.
• Advocate for technical solutions and operational processes as a force-multiplier.
• Own team operations and availability with monitoring, runbooks, testing and on-call readiness.
• Set and enforce code review and design standards beyond the team.
• Develop talent by mentoring and providing feedback.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Frontend development

System architecture

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

MySQL

Job description

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.

We are reinventing credit cards entirely. We are working directly with card issuers to change how credit is used throughout the world, creating new types of cards that work for both their everyday lives and large purchases with extremely straightforward, flexible terms. You will be the lead engineer for our EU teams. You will be responsible for architecture across cards and relationships with our EU counterparts. You'll work across stacks and across the company, working both in just-in-time transaction processing that has to take place in milliseconds, along with our ledgering and reconciliation systems in post-transaction processing. This is some of the more difficult, exciting, experimental engineering work in Affim. Join us and our team in Spain and Poland to help us revolutionize payments!

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 be the lead software engineer for all cards in the EU.
• 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.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.

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 are proficient in developing front end applications.
• 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.

Base Pay Grade- P

Equity Grade- 6

Employees new to Affim typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affim 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 Affim 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. Affiliers 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 - Affim 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 Affim at a discount

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