Senior Software Engineer (Decisions and Pricing EU)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Description: 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. Decisions and Pricing’s mission is to deliver the best credit decisions for Affirm consumers while maintaining positive unit economics and being the highest converting and most competitive payment solution for our merchant partners. The decisioning system and ML models our team owns and operates help us realize our mission for millions of consumers and merchant partners.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Ensure everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology, or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keeps the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
• Build APIs and data models to work within micro-service and event-driven architectures.
• Create parallelizable and idempotent batch jobs to process large amounts of data.
• Improve the current platform’s extensibility, performance, and usability to support rapid global deployment, scaling, and expansion.

Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python and Kotlin/Java.
• Technical Skills:
  • Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency in object-oriented and dynamically typed languages.
• Design & Architecture: Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high-quality system designs and software.
• Prior Experience: Prior experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex systems.
• Coding Standards: Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design. Write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Change Management: Proficiency at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed.

Application Instructions

• Not specified. (Please refer to Affirm’s careers page for application instructions.)