engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoSenior Software engineer (Furnishing Platform)
at Affirm
SpainRemote
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Responsibilities
- Own and deliver strategic outcomes : Drive the definition and delivery of quarterly and long-term goals, ensuring your team’s work ladders up to company-wide objectives.
- Lead engineers through ambiguity and open-ended problems, providing clarity and direction.
- Shape architecture and technical strategy : Influence the design of backend systems across multiple teams.
- Ensure that solutions are scalable, extensible, and aligned with broader engineering standards.
- Collaborate cross-functionally : Partner with product, analytics, and design to define solutions.
- Anticipate risks, articulate trade-offs, and ensure technical decisions support long-term product and business needs.
- Champion operational excellence : Ensure high availability and reliability of services by establishing strong monitoring, alerting, and recovery practices.
- Drive improvements that reduce system fragility and operational burden.
- Mentor and grow talent : Guide engineers within and beyond your team through mentorship, code/design reviews, and technical leadership.
- Scale impact beyond your team : Author technical proposals, share best practices via documentation and tech talks, and advocate for improvements that raise the bar for the broader data engineering community.
Requirements
- experience designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems, with strong proficiency in languages like Kotlin (or Python as a plus)
- Systems at scale : Proven track record of delivering high-volume, highly available systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes (Airflow, Spark, as a plus).
- Experience defining technical strategies for complex, cross-team initiatives. Ability to design elegant, extensible systems that balance short-term needs with long-term scalability.
- Leadership and influence : History of mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and shaping best practices beyond your immediate group.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity across stakeholders.
- Must be proficient in asynchronous mode of communication–written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc.
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
Experience
- Deep technical expertise : 4+ years of
Benefits
- Project management: high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively. Compensation & Benefits
- Base Pay Grade - N
- Equity Grade - Spain 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: €86000 - €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. #LI-Remote
- 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.
- You will partner closely with our Product, Compliance, Servicing, and Credit teams to design robust reporting systems.
- The systems you will work on are vital for delivering accurate and timely data from Affirm’s financial product portfolio to Consumer Reporting Agencies.
- Affirm is growing fast and we want you to enable us to scale our products to 10x and beyond through building world-class systems which enable Affirm in its mission to provide honest financial products which improve lives.
- We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride! What You’ll Do
- Set high standards for engineering practices and foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement What We Look For
- Operational rigor : Skilled at building resilient systems with monitoring, alerting, and safe deployment practices. Comfortable driving significant changes in large, complex codebases.
- Strong communication : Excellent verbal and written skills that enable you to influence technical and product decisions across a global engineering org.
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge