Affirm
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant Data Platform EU)
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Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant Data Platform EU)
Requirements and responsibilities
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- 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 drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
- 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 contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.
- You will mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
- You will own the availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.
- You have 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
- You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
- You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
- You are expert at synthesizing complex business products, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
- You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
- 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.
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Compensation & Benefits
- 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
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