Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Financial Products Engineering)

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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. 

We've opened an office in Poland with a goal to hire a substantial team of talented engineers within the first year. Read more about our plans here.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to help mentor and guide the Savings team in Poland, evolving one of the first major expansions of Affirm’s product offerings. Come join this backend engineering team as we scale the product and build out the features that make our offering uniquely compelling for Affirm’s customers.

We are only just getting started! Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride!

What you’ll do

  • Design and build our Savings platform to grow a major product offering and enable additional use cases like rewards.
  • Enhance and refactor core modules of the system to make it more extensible, robust and performant.
  • Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and robust solutions.
  • Lead technical discussions and plans to improve our overall software quality.
  • Plan, design, communicate, and implement software systems with an eye towards robust, extensible architecture.
  • Develop technical specifications and decompose the specification into tasks and phases.
  • Estimate project work effort and delivery, and create project roadmaps.
  • Continuously raise the bar in terms of code quality, performance, and systems design.
  • Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, develop talent, mentor engineers, and grow the team.

What we look for

  • 8+ years proven experience as a software engineer.
  • Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
  • Familiarity with deployment and automated testing frameworks.
  • Ability to collaborate with your team in a fast-paced environment.
  • Prior experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex products.
  • Ambition to change consumer financial services for the better.
  • Passion for developing peers through direct mentorship, code review, pairing, group learning sessions, and effective task delegation.
  • Business impact focus, pragmatic approach to delivering projects on time and safely, through well-scoped, orchestrated deployments.

Compensation & Benefits

 

We offer a competitive package, with some highlights listed below.  However, the given figures are not guaranteed compensation ranges; rather, they are unbinding, approximate indications of what the salary may be for your awareness. The actual salary may be less than the lower range or greater than the upper range, depending on skills and experience. No employee is guaranteed salary at the amount of the lower range.

  • Targeted Gross Monthly Salary: 23,917 - 28,700 PLN
  • New hires who commence employment with Affirm before June 30, 2022, and are employed for one year, are eligible to receive 100,000 PLN as a sign-on bonus.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food,lifestyle 
  • Generous time off policies 
  • Away Days
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Parental leave
  • Robust health benefits
  • Employee Resource & Community Groups

Location - Remote Poland

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

 

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia.  Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.

 

Inclusivity:

At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2020 DEI Report.

We also 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.

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More Information on Affirm
Affirm operates in the Fintech industry. The company is located in San Francisco , CA. Affirm was founded in 2012. It has 2200 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Volunteer in local community, Partners with nonprofits, Open door policy, OKR operational model, Team based strategic planning and Open office floor plan. To see all 35 open jobs at Affirm, click here.
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