Senior Software Engineer

April 17

Affirm

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• The Repayments Platform team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Backend development based in Europe with Poland as the base of operations. • This role requires a high level of technical capability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset. • Responsibilities include contributing to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, leading and mentoring engineers, conducting technical and soft skill evaluations, partnering with other engineering teams, and working on reliable and scalable solutions to various problems. • On-Call Rotation is a requirement for this role.

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

• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food 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