Senior Software Engineer – Comms Core

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

💵 €86k - €122k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Own and deliver quarterly technical goals for the Communications area • Solve ambiguous, open-ended problems across messaging infrastructure • Design and evolve reliable backend services for high-volume communications across multi-region, multi-tenant environments • Build orchestration, delivery, preferences, templates, and observability capabilities • Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, security, and engineering partners throughout the product lifecycle • Design, implement, and operate resilient integrations with external messaging vendors • Balance reliability, latency, cost, and compliance • Identify and solve issues affecting scalability, developer experience, and operational resilience • Define service-level objectives and metrics, improve alerting and incident response, and participate in on-call efforts • Improve design, testing, code review, rollout, and operational standards • Advocate for engineering standards through writing and tech talks • Provide feedback, mentorship, and technical direction • Lead by example

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development or engineering • Deep understanding of system design and architecture • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, Kotlin, or similar • Track record developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, DynamoDB, and Kubernetes • Experience designing multi-region, multi-tenant platforms with strong isolation, scalability, failure recovery, and data-consistency guarantees • Experience integrating with third-party communications or messaging vendors • Experience defining technical plans for significant features or system components with elegant, simple, and extensible designs • High-quality, readable code development • Proficiency making significant changes in a large code base • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and sound judgment validating their outputs • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Required participation in an on-call rotation • Must be based in Spain

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents • 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 coverage at no cost: 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents • Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities • In-person onboarding experience for all new hires