Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Settlement Engineering)

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Settlement Engineering)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

Our Settlements team builds both the technical foundation and the daily processes that enable Affirm to meet its obligations with its financial partners as well as with its merchants, with a particular stress on ensuring safety, accountability and industry standards. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our fully remote team based in Europe. You'll collaborate closely with stakeholders across North America and Europe including Product, Treasury Operations and Customer Success teams.

What You'll Do

You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.

You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.

You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.

You will support the operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting "keep the lights on" & on-call efforts.

You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving 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 - This role requires participation in an on-call rotation.

What We Look For

You have 5+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Kotlin or Java.

You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.

Familiarity with CI / CD practices and safe production deployments.

Proficiency in SQL and working with data-rich environments.

Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, or Chronosphere (nice to have).

Background in payment systems and banking industry standards (nice to have).

You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.

You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.

You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.

Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.

You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Pay Grade - N

Equity Grade - 4

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

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).

ESP base pay range per year : 85,000 - 115,000

Additional benefits include :

• 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

Location - Remote Spain

We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role. #LI-Remote