Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Recoveries

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

💵 €103k - €139k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Affirm

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and connect it to business-impacting projects • Shape the Recoveries platform through cross-team technical initiatives • Optimize recovery strategies and enable flexible customer-facing experiences • Strengthen the reliability and scalability of financial and partner integrations • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle • Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes • Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting • Establish code review and design standards and advocate through writing and tech talks • Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example • Participate in a required on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer • Proficiency in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes • Experience designing and operating correctness-sensitive batch, asynchronous, or data-processing systems, including scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling • Experience architecting solutions across complex systems and organizational boundaries • Experience driving changes across backend services and customer-facing applications to deliver end-to-end outcomes • Experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, through technical and execution plans • High-quality coding skills • Ability to understand low-level language idioms and large-system architecture • Demonstrated growth and impact through gathering and iterating on peer feedback • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to participate in a required 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 benefit • Employee Resource & Community Groups • Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents. • Spending stipends for tech setup, health and wellness options • Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount • In-person onboarding experience • Visa sponsorship available