engineering
Posted 6 hours agoSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant Data Platform EU)
at Affirm
SpainRemote
Requirements
- You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.
- experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and
- experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
- You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
- experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
- You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. Your
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
Experience
- You have 4+ years of
Benefits
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. Compensation & Benefits
- Base Pay Grade - N
- Equity Grade - 4
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range . Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location,
- Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and
- benefits ( including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents ).
- In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
- ESP base pay range per year: €86,000 - €122,000
- Additional benefits include:
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role.
- benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Additional details
- Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
- The Merchant Data Platform is a backend, foundational service at Affirm.
- We are responsible for merchant data and identity across all merchant touchpoints.
- Our checkout-critical platform serves millions of requests per day, supports the onboarding of merchants across all onboarding touchpoints, and maintains strict availability and latency SLAs given the criticality of the service.
- Further, the team maintains sophisticated pipelines that enrich our datasets for the purposes of merchant identification, risk analysis, and fraud detection.
- You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
- You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
- You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
- You will drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
- You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.