Senior Software Engineer (Repayment UX)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Repayment UX Engineering team is growing and looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Backend development. We’re a full-stack engineering team located entirely in Poland. We build and own user flows that enable tens of millions of consumers to repay loans worth over $20B each year. We continuously innovate to make the flow more user-friendly, more effective, and adapt to the needs of our rapidly expanding business. Our work is agile and fast-paced, shipping new code to production almost every two-week sprint, and rigorously measuring the impact it has on the behavior of our users.

This role requires a high level of technical capability, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset. There’s a very high degree of ownership in the role: you will know precisely what your objectives are, you’ll get everything you need to achieve those objectives, and you’ll be free to choose your own path to reach them. You’ll have the opportunity to share your knowledge with others, and learn from very experienced teammates and collaborators. Come join us!

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the design and implementation of large scale and low latency services, elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs.
• Influence strategic and tactical decisions related to our product, platform and success metrics.
• Identify stakeholders, gather their needs and opinions, advocate for ideas and initiatives, and create a common understanding where all voices are heard.
• Partner with engineers, other engineering teams and third-party vendors to develop reliable and scalable solutions to a wide range of problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners like product managers, designers and analysts to deliver an outstanding, high quality experience to our users. The vast majority of people you’ll interact with day to day are located in a compatible timezone.
• Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow. Provide them with the right context and train them to take ownership of their respective pieces of our initiatives.
• Review others’ work and provide reinforcing and constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards.
• Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Rigorously test the code we write as a team and support it as part of a sustainable on-call rotation.
• Take active part in improving our processes, flow of information and work culture.
• Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence our hiring decisions.
• Develop and review the technical content and requirements of the interview process.

What we look for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production-quality backend services
• Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns – Python, Flask, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others
• Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown – e.g. deep complexity, ambiguous problems, unfamiliar technologies
• A track record of influencing other peoples’ work through architecture design, code review, cross-functional collaboration, domain expertise, coaching other engineers, or other means
• Prior experience building, launching and maintaining complex systems. Bonus points for experience with large-scale systems in a service-oriented architecture
• Prior experience collaborating with mobile and/or web frontend software engineers. Experience leading full-stack projects is a plus
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English

Compensation & Benefits

Base Pay Grade - N

Equity Grade - 4

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills. 

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

POL base pay range per year: 301,000 zł - 401,000 zł

Additional benefits include:

• 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 leave
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy

Location - Remote Poland

The majority of our roles can be located anywhere in Poland.

**This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.**

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