engineering
Posted 1 weeks agoSenior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity International)
at Affirm
PolandRemote
Requirements
- When a customer chooses Affirm, one of the first steps is an identity check, and our ability to make the right decision directly impacts conversion, revenue, fraud exposure, and regulatory compliance. Our team owns Identity for all markets outside North America, playing a key role in Affirm’s international expansion.
- experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. You have
- 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 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, experience and job-related skills.
- 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).
- POL base pay range per year: 308,000 zł - 428,000 zł
- Additional benefits include:
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
- 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.
- Affirm’s Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience.
- We are responsible for KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning across multiple regulatory environments.
- This work is about shaping how Affirm adapts its core Identity platform to new market dynamics, customer expectations, and compliance requirements.
- We are a team of six engineers based across Spain and Poland.
- In this role, you will help shape our quarterly technical direction, translate team goals into concrete projects, and identify cross-cutting risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities.
- You should be comfortable designing across system boundaries, driving collaboration with partner teams, and advocating for technical investments that improve long-term execution. We’re looking for someone who takes ownership beyond shipping code: raising code quality and review standards, making performance, availability, and scale tradeoffs explicit, and improving the operational health of the systems they own.
- You’ll help reduce toil, create useful playbooks, mentor engineers, support new hires and interns, and contribute to high-signal hiring.
- Most importantly, we’re excited to work with someone who leaves things better than they found them, communicates clearly across audiences, uses customer feedback to influence technical plans, and helps the team continuously improve.
- This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for someone who wants to work on foundational systems that directly enable Affirm’s global growth. What You'll Do