Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
- Build capital partner integrations, funding services, and testing infrastructure for Affirm loan funding.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes.
- Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
- Establish code review and design standards and promote quality and ownership through writing and technical talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Requirements
- 7+ 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.
- Required knowledge of Spark and its inner workings.
- Knowledge of task orchestration systems such as Airflow or Temporal is preferred.
- Experience defining technical and execution plans for major features, system components, or deprecations.
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable code and work from low-level language idioms through large-system architecture.
- Strong track record of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Benefits
- Contract of Employment.
- Remote work anywhere in Poland for the majority of roles.
- Health care coverage with premiums covered for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
- Away Days, vacation, and holiday schedules.
- Learning and Development programs.
- Parental benefits.
- Employee Resource and Community Groups.
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
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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.