2 days ago
Remote, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the Recoveries team on a year-long time horizon and connect it to business-critical projects.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives for recovery strategies, customer-facing experiences, financial integrations, reliability, and scalability.
- Design and operate correctness-sensitive batch, asynchronous, reconciliation, and data-processing systems.
- Establish monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call operational practices.
- Set code review and design standards, communicate technical guidance through writing and tech talks, and develop engineering talent.
- Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, and other teams to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Proficiency designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling in correctness-sensitive systems.
- Experience architecting solutions across complex systems and organizational boundaries, including backend services and customer-facing applications.
- Experience delivering major features or system components, deprecating functionality, and defining technical and execution plans.
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable code and work from low-level language idioms through large-system architecture.
- Demonstrated growth through 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
- Remote-first role located anywhere in Poland, with occasional in-person work possible and an in-person onboarding experience for new hires.
- Base pay range of 365,000 zł to 485,000 zł, plus potential equity; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents, including Lux Med's Platinum package.
- Flexible spending wallets for technology and wellbeing expenses, reimbursable up to 1390 zł per month.
- Paid time off, public holidays, additional paid Away Days, and flexible holiday calendars.
- MultiSport card, Maven family healthcare support, Parentaly parental leave support, and Lyra mental well-being counseling or coaching.
- Learning and development programs, employee resource groups, and financial well-being support through Northstar.
- Employee stock purchase plan and eligibility for creative tax benefits subject to applicable law and company policy.
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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.