Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal reporting)

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 Deal Reporting team builds critical capital partner integrations and services to automate funding processes safely and reliably. They partner with Product and Capital Markets teams to implement complex financial structures, integrations, and reporting. This role supports Deal Reporting's first international team to build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure for funding Affirm loans.

• 7+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Spark and its inner workings is required.
• Knowledge of task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a plus.
• 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 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 monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support "keep the lights on" and 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.

This role is located remotely within Poland. Affirm is committed to providing an inclusive interview experience and reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. The job description is not a contractual document and is subject to applicable law and company policy.