2 days ago
Remote, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the Recoveries team over a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives that improve recovery strategies, customer experiences, reliability, scalability, and financial or partner integrations.
- Architect and deliver backend systems and major technical initiatives across organizational boundaries.
- Own operational readiness, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
- Establish code review and design standards while promoting quality and ownership through writing and technical talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and technical leadership.
- Participate in a required on-call rotation.
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 designing and operating correctness-sensitive batch, asynchronous, or data-processing systems, including scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling.
- 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 ability to gather and iterate 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 based in Spain with flexibility within the country of employment and occasional in-person onboarding.
- Visa sponsorship is available for this role, provided the employee is based in Spain.
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Monthly spending stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, health, and wellness needs.
- Flexible time off, generous holiday calendars, and wellness days.
- Learning and development programs, parental benefits, and employee resource and community groups.
- Employee stock purchase plan allowing employees to buy Affirm stock at a discount.
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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.