Software Engineer II, Back-end

Affirm
Summary
Join Affirm's Recoveries team as a Software Engineer and contribute to building a robust platform for maximizing the recovery of charged-off loans. Collaborate with product managers and risk teams to manage loans, develop recovery strategies, and ensure system accuracy. You will break down projects, deliver in phases, and collaborate with stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle. Support operations, create metrics, and participate in on-call rotations. Contribute to team community through growth and development activities, including interviews. Affirm offers competitive compensation and benefits, including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, flexible spending wallets, away days, learning and development programs, parental benefits, and an employee stock purchase plan.
Requirements
- You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
- You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
- You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
- You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
- Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
- Base Pay Grade - L
- Equity Grade - 3
- ESP base pay range per year: €71,000 - €101,000
- We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role
- Location - Remote Spain
Responsibilities
- Break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work
- 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
- 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
- Contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
- Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company)
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental benefits
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
- 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