2 months ago
Remote, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems.
- Define long-term technical strategy and provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Identify and lead solutions for project, process, technology, and business issues.
- Own team operations and availability, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
- Set and improve code review and design standards and promote engineering quality through writing and tech talks.
- Develop talent by providing feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
- Participate in a required on-call rotation.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with backend programming languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Ability to define technical plans and design significant features or system components with elegant, simple, and extensible architectures.
- Experience making significant changes safely in large codebases using appropriate tools and practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
- A Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Remote position based in Spain.
- Visa sponsorship is available.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage with premiums fully subsidized for employees and dependents.
- 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.
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About Affirm
Affirm provides buy now, pay later installment financing at online and in-store checkout, along with a consumer app and virtual card, for shoppers and merchants. It monetizes through merchant fees and interest on select loans, with no late fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Affirm is a public company listed on NASDAQ that powers payments for thousands of ecommerce retailers.