Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Servicing Engineering)

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.

The Bankruptcies & Hardships team (B&H) is a newly formed engineering group responsible for building Affirm’s core servicing platforms that support customers during critical financial moments. The team owns backend services and pipelines that orchestrate bankruptcy workflows and power compliant, reliable hardship support at scale. Engineers on this team work on distributed systems, event-driven pipelines, and high-availability services with a strong emphasis on correctness, auditability, and operational excellence. This is a greenfield environment with collaboration across product, compliance, and other platform teams.

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficient in designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in developing web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through technical and execution plans.
• Ability to write high-quality, understandable, and reusable code.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and understanding systems from low-level language idioms to large system architecture.
• Demonstrated growth and impact through gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and align it with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risk management, and trade-offs.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of team operations and availability by ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond the team through writing and tech talks.
• Develop talent on the team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.

• Location - Remote Poland.
• The majority of roles can be located anywhere in Poland.
• This job description is not a contractual document and is not intended to have binding force.
• Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company with flexibility to work remotely but occasional office presence may be required.
• Affirm provides an inclusive interview experience and reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
• For U.S. positions in Los Angeles or San Francisco, Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to local ordinances.