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.
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. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly.
Our mission is to take responsibility for the tools, frameworks, and artifacts that empower product teams to seamlessly create and deliver transactional communications to borrowers and merchants. As a dedicated platform team, we are committed to enabling product owners to concentrate on crafting exceptional user experiences, free from the complexities of implementation, transport, and measurement of communications.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in developing and maintaining a critical messaging service that handles high volumes of emails, SMS, and push notifications. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our messaging infrastructure.
We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on integrity and trust.
What You'll Do
- Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources.
- 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.
- Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other engineers, both inside and outside the immediate team.
- Foster a respectful and supportive environment that embraces the diversity of the team.
- 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.
- On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
What We Look For
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring senior engineers.
- Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns (e.g: Python, Flask, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others)
- Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP etc;.
- Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems.
- Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience — ours, our stakeholders', and our company's — as we do the design of our engineering systems.
- You are not dogmatic and believe in solving problems with the right tool for the job.
- Experience providing reviews on teammates code and designs, providing constructive feedback to meet a high bar of quality and help others grow.
- Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication.
- Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow. Ambiguity is where you thrive
Compensation & Benefits
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Generous time off policies
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental leave
- Robust health benefits
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
Pay Grade - ESP30
Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.
ESP base pay range per year:
Min: €71,700
Mid: €89,600
Max: €107,500
We offer a competitive package, with some highlights listed below:
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Generous time off policies
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental leave
- Robust health benefits
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role.
Location - Remote Spain
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- 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
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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