Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Decisions and Pricing EU)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Work with product managers and tech leads to develop features to support product and commercial initiatives
• - Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others
• - Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects
• - Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor to build a team that can confidently tackle complex challenges across multiple technical domains
• - Be hands on. Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures
• - Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data
• - Improve the current platform's extensibility, performance and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling and expansion
• - Actively participate in making your team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds
• - Take an active role in mentoring engineers and senior leaders, and the processes that support team growth and efficiency
• - On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement

Required Skills

• - 6+ years proven experience as a software engineer
• - Proficiency in Python or Kotlin/Java is a must
• - Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages
• - Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
• - Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment
• - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• - Must be proficient in asynchronous mode of communication–written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc.
• - Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems

Benefits

• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• - Learning & Development programs
• - Parental leave
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups
• - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• - 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