Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Recoveries

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and achieve quarterly objectives for the team.

• Guide engineers through uncertainty to address open-ended challenges and provide support during delivery.

• Work in tandem with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle.

• Engage in ideation, clarify technical constraints, and collaborate on risk and trade-off decisions.

• Recognize, advocate for, and spearhead the resolution of project, process, technology, and business challenges.

• Manage and maintain team artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating issues as necessary, and supporting ongoing operational efforts.

• Establish and enhance code review and design standards, promoting them through writing and technical presentations.

• Foster team talent through constructive feedback, guidance, and leading by example.

• Design, develop, launch, and manage backend systems and asynchronous workloads for the Recoveries platform.

• Oversee loans through their final lifecycle phase and create and implement recovery strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience as a software engineer.

• Proven experience in designing, developing, and launching scalable backend systems.

• Familiarity with technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.

• Experience in delivering web applications using declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.

• Background in creating, implementing, and managing batch processing or asynchronous workloads, including scheduled tasks, backfills, and large-scale data processing.

• Strong emphasis on correctness, observability, and handling failures effectively.

• Capability to define technical plans for significant features or system components with elegant, straightforward, and extensible designs.

• Proficient in writing high-quality, understandable, and reusable code.

• Ability to make substantial modifications safely within a large codebase.

• Experience in creating tools and practices that facilitate safe large-scale codebase modifications.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with a global engineering team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity from the parent company.

• Flexible spending wallets for technology and wellbeing-related expenses, reimbursable up to 1390 zł per month.

• Competitive paid time off.

• Paid public holidays.

• Additional paid Away Days.

• Comprehensive private healthcare through Lux Med's Platinum package.

• MultiSport card.

• Opportunities for learning and development programs.

• Family healthcare support through Maven.

• Parental leave support via Parentaly.

• Mental well-being support through Lyra, including up to 12 confidential counseling or coaching sessions each year for you and your household members.

• Financial well-being support through Northstar, with unlimited access to Certified Financial Advisors and planning tools at no cost.

• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

• Eligibility for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law, role, and company policy.

• Health care coverage with premiums fully covered for all levels of coverage for employees and dependents.

• Flexible Spending Wallets for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family formation expenses.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) allowing employees to purchase shares of Affirm at a discount.