Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Search Platform team and help build the next generation of Affirm Marketplace Search! As a senior engineering leader, you will set the technical strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure operational excellence. You will also mentor and develop your team, fostering a culture of quality and ownership. This role requires 8+ years of experience in backend systems, distributed systems, and search technologies. Affirm offers competitive compensation and benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage, flexible spending wallets, and generous time off.

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
• You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• 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
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience with OpenSearch, ElasticSearch or other search technologies - would be ideal
• Experience productizing ML based search solutions - would be ideal

Benefits

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - 6
• ESP base pay range per year: €101,000  -  €131,000
• Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents)
• In addition, the employees may be eligible for 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 leave
• Employee Resource & Community Groups
• 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
• 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