Staff Software Engineer

2 hours, 34 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 technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that raise team effectiveness.
  • Own team operations and availability by implementing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
  • Establish code review and design standards and promote a culture of quality and ownership across the team.
  • Mentor and develop engineers through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
  • Help shape the evolution of systems to support new discovery paradigms, personalization, and experimentation.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for the role.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Proficiency designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency developing web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React, React Native, or Vue.
  • Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan.
  • Ability to write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and moving between language-level details and large-scale architecture.
  • Demonstrated ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
  • On-call rotation is required.
  • Experience shaping long-term architectural direction and leading cross-team initiatives (preferred by role scope).

Benefits

  • Base pay range of €101,000 - €131,000 per year.
  • Potential equity rewards through Affirm Holdings, Inc.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage, plus dental and vision for you and your dependents.
  • Monthly stipends / flexible spending wallets for health, wellness, tech, food, and lifestyle spending.
  • Away Days and competitive vacation and holiday time off.
  • Learning and Development programs.
  • Parental leave.
  • Employee Resource & Community Groups.
  • Visa sponsorship available for this role.
  • Remote-first work environment with location set to Remote Spain.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

SeatGeek 251-1K Media

SeatGeek is hiring Platform Engineers to build and improve the secure, reliable platform that helps internal teams develop, deploy, and operate products at scale.

AWS Datadog Flink GitLab Go Kafka Kong Kubernetes Python Terraform YAML
4 minutes ago

GDS Script Writer

CI Azumano Business Travel 51-250 Consumer Services

CI Azumano, Seneca Holdings' travel management company, is hiring a remote GDS Script Writer to maintain and improve scripting tools that streamline travel consultant workflows and reduce errors and costs.

4 minutes ago

Software Engineer - Billing Systems

Zendesk 5K-10K Professional Services

DoiT is hiring a remote Software Engineer for its Business Systems Engineering team to help design, build, and scale billing and invoicing systems that support core cloud billing operations.

AWS Azure GCP Git GitHub Go Java Kubernetes Node.js Python SQL
4 minutes ago

Senior macOS Extension Developer (Contractor)

Tech Holding 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Tech Holding is hiring a Senior macOS Systems Engineer to build and maintain a production-grade sync or virtual drive client for macOS.

macOS Swift
4 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers