Staff Software Engineer, Backend (deal Reporting)

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

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal reporting) at Affirm, focusing on building critical capital partner integrations, services for automating funding processes, and testing infrastructure. The role involves setting technical strategy, collaborating across product development lifecycle, ensuring operational availability, fostering quality, and developing talent. Requires 7+ years of experience in backend systems, distributed systems (AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes), and knowledge of Spark. Experience with task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a plus.

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, polcities, 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

  • Python
  • Kotlin
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Spark

Nice to have

  • Airflow
  • Temporal

What the JD emphasized

  • highly motivated Staff Software Engineer
  • critical capital partner integrations
  • services to automate funding processes safely and reliably
  • complex financial structures, integrations and reporting
  • empower Deal Reporting's first international team
  • build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure to power the funding of every Affirm loan
  • 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
  • extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems
  • Knowledge of Spark and it’s inner workings is a must