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 and services for automating funding processes. The role involves setting technical strategy, collaborating across product development lifecycle, ensuring system operations and availability, fostering quality and ownership, and developing team 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. The role is remote in Spain with a base pay range of €101,000 - €131,000.

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

  • 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
  • Python or Kotlin
  • highly available distributed systems
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Spark
  • gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
  • strong verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

  • task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal

What the JD emphasized

  • On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
  • Knowledge of Spark and it’s inner workings is a must