Software Engineer Ii, Backend (merchant Data Platform Eu)

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Poland · Remote · Checkout

Software Engineer II, Backend for Affirm's Merchant Data Platform. This role focuses on building and maintaining a critical backend service responsible for merchant data and identity, ensuring high availability and low latency. The team also manages data enrichment pipelines for merchant identification, risk analysis, and fraud detection.

What you'd actually do

  1. With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
  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 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.
  4. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Designing, developing and launching backend systems
  • Python or Kotlin
  • Distributed systems
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components
  • Writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
  • Navigating a large code base
  • Debugging others' code
  • Providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
  • Ownership of growth
  • Proactively seeking feedback
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills