Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity International)

7 hours, 9 minutes 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 the team’s technical strategy over a year-long horizon and connect it to business-critical projects.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that increase team effectiveness.
  • Own service operations and availability, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
  • Establish code review and design standards while promoting quality and ownership across engineering.
  • Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
  • Contribute to Identity Data Management, KYC Verification, decisioning capabilities, and global Identity architecture.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
  • Proficiency with backend programming languages such as Python or Kotlin.
  • Extensive experience building highly available distributed systems.
  • Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience delivering major features, system components, or system deprecations through technical and execution plans.
  • Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code and understand systems from language-level details through large-scale architecture.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and iterating based on engineering and cross-functional feedback.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with global engineering teams.

Benefits

  • UK base salary of £142,000–£190,000 per year, with potential equity rewards.
  • Remote-first work environment within the UK.
  • 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Monthly or flexible spending stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with discounted Affirm shares.

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