Responsibilities
- Own and deliver quarterly and long-term strategic engineering outcomes
- Lead engineers through ambiguous and open-ended problems by providing clarity and direction
- Influence the architecture and technical strategy of large-scale data and backend systems across multiple teams
- Partner with product, analytics, design, compliance, servicing, and credit stakeholders on data-driven solutions
- Establish monitoring, alerting, recovery, and other operational excellence practices for data pipelines and services
- Mentor engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and design reviews
- Author technical proposals, document best practices, and share knowledge through technical talks
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data pipelines and distributed backend systems
- Strong proficiency in Python, Kotlin, or similar programming languages
- Experience delivering high-volume, highly available systems using AWS, MySQL, Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes
- Experience defining technical strategies for complex, cross-team initiatives and designing scalable, extensible systems
- Experience building resilient systems with monitoring, alerting, and safe deployment practices
- Experience driving significant changes in large, complex codebases
- Experience mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and influencing engineering practices beyond the immediate team
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
- Remote position based in Spain with visa sponsorship available
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage 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 and employee resource and community groups
- Employee stock purchase plan and potential equity rewards
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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.