Staff Software Engineer

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Spain · Remote · Consumer Engineering

Staff Software Engineer for Affirm's Acquisition & Onboarding team, focusing on full-stack development (mobile, web, backend) to improve customer experience and drive business growth in a fintech context. Role involves setting technical strategy, mentoring, and driving architectural decisions.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
  2. You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
  3. You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
  4. You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
  5. You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
  • Python
  • Kotlin
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks
  • React
  • React Native
  • Vue
  • Delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality
  • High quality code
  • Thrive in ambiguity
  • Navigate ambiguity
  • Gathering and iterating on feedback
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills