Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal reporting)

Affirm; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within Poland

100% subsidized medical coverage

Equity rewards

Flexible Spending Wallets

Away Days

Learning & Development

Parental benefits

Employee Resource & Community Groups

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Deal Reporting backend infrastructure and international expansion efforts. You will drive the technical strategy for the team, collaborate with product, design and analytics, and ensure reliable, scalable services for funding workflows.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, high-quality code, and proactive operational excellence. You will mentor teammates, participate in design reviews, and help shape the future of Deal Reporting’s

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Spark is a must.
• Knowledge of task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a plus.
• Experience delivering major features or components with a clear technical plan.
• Ability to work across the architecture of large systems and iterate from low-level to high-level design.
• Strong verbal and written communication with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team over a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to ensure sustainability and manage risks.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions and processes.
• Own team operations, monitoring, on-call readiness, playbooks and alerting.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership through coding standards and guidance.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Backend design

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Spark

Airflow/Temporal

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Temporal

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.

The Deal Reporting team is responsible for building our critical capital partner integrations, as well as services to automate funding processes safely and reliably. We partner with Product and Capitals Markets teams to understand and implement complex financial structures, integrations and reporting. We are looking for a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to help empower Deal Reporting’s first international team, and build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure to power the funding of every affirm loan.

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:

• You have 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Spark and it’s inner workings is a must.
• Knowledge on task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a good to have.
• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - Poland 5

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).

POL base pay range per year: 365,000 zł - 485,000 zł

Additional benefits include:

• Type of employment: Contract of Employment
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

This role is eligible for creative tax benefits,subject to applicable law and company policy.

This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.

Location - Remote Poland

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

#LI-Remote

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. affirmers 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 - 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 allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.