Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal Reporting) at Affirm

Affirm

Remote Spain·12h ago

LeadFull-timePythonAWSKubernetesMySQL

Salary Range

$73,440 - $99,360 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Affirm's Deal Reporting team. This role involves building critical capital partner integrations and services to automate funding processes safely and reliably. You will help empower the team's first international presence and build the infrastructure to power every Affirm loan.

Key Responsibilities

→Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and connect it with critical business projects
→Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics
→Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions and operational processes
→Ensure team operations and availability through proper monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting
→Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards
→Help develop talent on your team through feedback and guidance
→Participate in an on-call rotation as a requirement

Requirements

✓7+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin
✓Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
✓Knowledge of Spark and its inner workings is a must
✓Experience with task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a plus
✓Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating functionality through technical and execution plans
✓Ability to thrive in ambiguity and understand systems from low-level language idioms to large system architecture
✓Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with global engineering teams