Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Payments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Taking ownership of and achieving quarterly objectives for your team.

• Guiding engineers within your team through uncertainty to address open-ended challenges.

• Assisting colleagues and stakeholders throughout the product development process.

• Actively identifying issues related to projects, processes, technology, or business operations.

• Ensuring the operations and accessibility of your team’s deliverables.

• Cultivating an environment of quality and accountability within your team.

• Contributing to the growth of talent on your team by offering constructive feedback and mentorship.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in designing, developing, and launching scalable backend systems using programming languages such as Python or Kotlin.

• Proven history of creating highly available distributed systems utilizing technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

• Experience in articulating a technical strategy for delivering significant features or system components with a design that is elegant, simple, and extensible.

• Adept at implementing substantial modifications in a large codebase and have established a suite of tools and practices that allow you and your team to do so safely.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills that facilitate effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm pays all premiums for all coverage levels for you and your dependents.

• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends available for technology, food, various lifestyle expenses, and family formation costs.

• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules that enable you to take time off to recharge and refresh.

• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan that allows you to acquire shares of Affirm at a discounted rate.