Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Decisions and Pricing Engineering team in Europe as a key leader. You will build large-scale distributed systems, drive ML innovation, and develop the group's technology strategy. This role demands high technical ability, leadership, strong communication, and creativity. You'll collaborate with product managers and engineers, build APIs and data models, and improve platform performance. Affirm offers competitive compensation and benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage, flexible spending wallets, and learning & development programs. The position is remote in Poland.

Requirements

• 6+ years proven experience as a software engineer
• Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must. Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages
• Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
• Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be proficient in asynchronous mode of communication–written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc
• Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and tech leads to develop features to support product and commercial initiatives
• Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor to build a team that can confidently tackle complex challenges across multiple technical domains
• Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures. Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data
• Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion
• Actively participate in making your team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds
• Take an active role in mentoring engineers and senior leaders, and the processes that support team growth and efficiency

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
• Type of employment: Contract of Employment
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave
• Employee Resource & Community Groups
• This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
• Location - Remote Poland
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount