Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics on ideation, technical constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
- Identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology, and business issues.
- Support the operations and availability of team artifacts through metrics, escalation, and on-call efforts.
- Set and improve code review and design standards and promote quality and ownership through writing and tech talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Experience with languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Ability to define technical plans for significant features or system components using elegant, simple, and extensible designs.
- Ability to make significant changes safely in a large codebase using appropriate tools and practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
- Demonstrated ownership of professional growth and proactive feedback-seeking.
Benefits
- Remote-first role located anywhere in Poland, with flexible remote work.
- Health care coverage with premiums covered for employees and dependents, including dental and vision.
- Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
- Wellness days, competitive vacation and holiday schedules, and parental benefits.
- Learning and Development programs, Employee Resource and Community Groups, and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Base pay range of 308,000 zł–428,000 zł per year, plus potential equity and applicable tax benefits.
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About Affirm
At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products. We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more. A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company email address domains (either “@affirm.com” or "@us.greenhouse-mail.io”) to communicate with candidates via email. Affirm is also proud to be a remote-first company! Attracting great people starts by finding talent in different places. That's why we built remote work into the DNA of how we do business—but if an office space is more your style, we have offices in Chicago, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Warsaw, Madrid and London. Not to mention we have comprehensive and award-winning benefits that were made for you. Interested in learning more? Check out our careers page and apply today! Visit affirm.com/careers for more information.