Senior Software Engineer (Decisions and Pricing EU)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics
• - Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team
• - Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• - Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them
• - Support the operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics
• - Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards
• - Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance
• - 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
• - Participate in on-call rotation as a requirement

Required Skills

• - 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python and Kotlin/Java
• - Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• - Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages
• - Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements
• - Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
• - Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component
• - Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• - Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base
• - Strong written and verbal communication skills

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
• - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• - Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• - ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount