Senior Software Engineer, Backend (comms Platform)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Spain · Remote · Financial Platforms - Engineering

Senior Backend Engineer for Affirm's Comms Platform, focusing on transactional communication services (email, SMS, push notifications). Responsibilities include owning quarterly goals, leading engineers, collaborating with product management, identifying and solving technical issues, supporting operations and availability, fostering quality and ownership, and developing talent. Requires 5+ years of experience in backend systems, distributed systems, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
  4. 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.
  5. You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
  6. You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Kotlin
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • distributed systems
  • backend systems

Nice to have

  • designing
  • developing
  • launching
  • code review
  • design standards
  • tech talks
  • feedback and guidance

What the JD emphasized

  • high availability
  • internationalization
  • platform modernization
  • swift response times
  • seamless operations
  • always on time and high quality comms