Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Decisions and Pricing EU)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Drive the evolution and architecture of Decisioning systems
• - Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the organization
• - Establish architecture, technical design, and code review standards, coach team members to conduct effective design and code reviews
• - Ensure high programming standards, create best practices, and lead by example
• - Partner with Product Management, provide technical input to shape product direction and roadmap
• - 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
• - 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

• - 10+ years of experience as a software engineer
• - Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
• - A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
• - A strong understanding of machine learning and modeling techniques at scale
• - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• - Must be proficient in asynchronous communication – written tech specs, wiki, project plans, etc.
• - Excellent project management skills – high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively
• - Business impact focus, pragmatic approach to delivering projects on time and safely
• - Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Risk, Analytics etc.
• - Python/Kotlin development experience is a plus
• - Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers
• - Experience with Fintech or regulatory industries is a plus

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