Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Card)

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and connect it to business-impacting projects.
  • Serve as the lead software engineer for all cards in the EU.
  • Own architecture across cards and coordinate with EU counterparts.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Define technical solutions and operational processes to improve team effectiveness.
  • Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
  • Set and advocate for code review and design standards within and beyond the team.
  • Support talent development by giving feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation.
  • Work across backend, front-end, transaction processing, ledgering, and reconciliation systems.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
  • Experience with Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience developing front-end applications.
  • Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan.
  • Ability to write high-quality code that is easy for others to understand and use.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and moving from language-level details to large-system architecture.
  • Demonstrated ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
  • On-call rotation is required.
  • Based in Spain; visa sponsorship is available.

Benefits

  • Base pay range of €103,000 to €139,000 per year.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Equity rewards and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
  • Away Days / wellness days to recharge.
  • Learning and Development programs.
  • Parental benefits.
  • Remote-first work with the role based in Spain.

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