Affirm

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Financial Platforms

Affirm

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇪🇸 Spain

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Salary

💰 €85,000 - €115,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonReactVue.js

About the role

  • Focus on purchase protection, including disputes and refunds, as part of the Servicing International team supporting global expansion
  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics during ideation and technical decision-making, articulating constraints and trade-offs
  • Proactively identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology, or business issues
  • Support operations and availability by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and participating in on-call efforts
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards and advocating broadly
  • Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example
  • Partner closely with European engineering counterparts and global Servicing Engineering organization to build cohesive, scalable solutions

Requirements

  • You have a total of 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
  • Experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue
  • Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design
  • Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
  • Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable safe changes
  • Take ownership of your growth and proactively seek feedback
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaborating with a global engineering team
  • On-call rotation is required
  • Must be based in Spain (visa sponsorship available)