Affirm
Senior Software engineer (Furnishing Platform)
Remote Financial Platforms - Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries2 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
PolandSpain
Role overview
Senior Software engineer (Furnishing Platform)
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Own and deliver strategic outcomes: Drive the definition and delivery of quarterly and long-term goals, ensuring your team’s work ladders up to company-wide objectives. Lead engineers through ambiguity and open-ended problems, providing clarity and direction.
- Shape architecture and technical strategy: Influence the design of large-scale data and backend systems across multiple teams. Ensure that solutions are scalable, extensible, and aligned with broader engineering standards.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with product, analytics, and design to define data-driven solutions. Anticipate risks, articulate trade-offs, and ensure technical decisions support long-term product and business needs.
- Champion operational excellence: Ensure high availability and reliability of data pipelines and services by establishing strong monitoring, alerting, and recovery practices. Drive improvements that reduce system fragility and operational burden.
- Mentor and grow talent: Guide engineers within and beyond your team through mentorship, code/design reviews, and technical leadership. Set high standards for engineering practices and foster a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
- Scale impact beyond your team: Author technical proposals, share best practices via documentation and tech talks, and advocate for improvements that raise the bar for the broader data engineering community.What We Look For
- Deep technical expertise: 4+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data pipelines and distributed backend systems, with strong proficiency in languages like Python, Kotlin, or similar.
- Systems at scale: Proven track record of delivering high-volume, highly available systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes.
- Architectural leadership: Experience defining technical strategies for complex, cross-team initiatives. Ability to design elegant, extensible systems that balance short-term needs with long-term scalability.
- Operational rigor: Skilled at building resilient systems with monitoring, alerting, and safe deployment practices. Comfortable driving significant changes in large, complex codebases.
- Leadership and influence: History of mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and shaping best practices beyond your immediate group. Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity across stakeholders.
- Strong communication: Excellent verbal and written skills that enable you to influence technical and product decisions across a global engineering org.
- 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
- Type of employment: Contract of Employment
- 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
- This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy
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