Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Fraud Ops and Compliance Tools team in Poland as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend development. You will lead a team, own quarterly goals, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to mitigate financial crimes and improve Fraud Operations efficiency. Responsibilities include writing high-quality Python code, building APIs, supporting product development, identifying and solving issues, fostering a culture of quality, and developing team talent. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in backend system development at scale, experience with distributed systems and technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, and strong communication skills. Affirm offers competitive benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending wallets, competitive time off, an employee stock purchase plan, and parental leave.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• Have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• Be proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team
• Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• Ensure that everyone is supported throughout delivery
• Work cross-functionally with colleagues in Machine Learning, Product, Compliance, Analytics and Fraud Ops teams to set and execute our financial crimes mitigation strategy and improve Fraud Operations efficiency
• Write high-quality code in Python that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
• Build APIs and workflows to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures
• 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
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them
• 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
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snowflake and dbt
• Experience with Airflow

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• 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
• Creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
• Remote work in 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