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Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Base pay range per year: €85,000 – €115,000
- 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
- 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
