7 months ago
Remote, PolandStaff+
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
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.