Senior Software Engineer

April 17

Affirm

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We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company$1. !$1

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs. • Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow. Provide them with the right context and train them to take ownership of their respective pieces of our initiatives. • Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions. • Partner with other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems. • Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards.

Requirements

+7 years of development experience. Experience leading design and execution and delivery of backend software projects. Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP etc; Experience with designing and owning highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems using cloud storage services. Strong understanding of CS fundamentals such as Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems, algorithms, and data structures. Hands-on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala). Experience building software for database administration or experience with devops for databases is a plus. Working knowledge of OLAP systems like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery and Table formats like Apache Iceberg, HUDI, Delta Lake is a plus. Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset. Machine learning experience is a bonus but it’s not required. At least one of: - Experience working in Database, SRE, or Infrastructure teams in the past, or have operated a distributed data storage system such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, or others. - Experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We use technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX, but we are always looking for new technologies to adopt.

Benefits

• Targeted Gross Monthly Salary: 25,792 - 32,233 PLN • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech and lifestyle • Generous time off policies • Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge • Learning & Development programs • Parental leave • Robust health benefits • Employee Resource & Community Groups • Potential sign-on bonus of up to 10% of your base salary • Eligibility for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy