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 Comms Platform team is responsible for managing critical services that are integral to the success and sustainability of our organization. This services require attention to detail, proactive maintenance, and swift response times to ensure uninterrupted operations.
The recent high-priority requests include upcoming UK launch and comms modernization initiative; these are pivotal to our organizational growth and competitiveness in the market. Also, they require dedicated people and expertise to execute efficiently and effectively. Without sufficient capacity, we risk delays, quality compromises, and missed opportunities to capitalize on key strategic objectives. Come join us!
● Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources.
● Consistently generate simple and sophisticated designs and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and used by others.
● Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
● Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
● Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other engineers, both inside and outside the immediate team.
● Foster a respectful and supportive environment that embraces the diversity of the team.
● 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.
● 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring senior engineers.
● Proven knowledge of backend languages, tooling and design patterns (e.g: Kotlin, Python, Flask, MySQL, Airflow, REST, RPC, or others)
● Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP etc;.
● Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems.
● Product-centric thinking -- we care just as much about the product experience — ours, our stakeholders', and our company's — as we do the design of our engineering systems.
● You are not dogmatic and believe in solving problems with the right tool for the job.
● Experience providing reviews on teammates code and designs, providing constructive feedback to meet a high bar of quality and help others grow.
● Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication.
● Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow. Ambiguity is where you thrive.
Base Pay Grade - N
Equity Grade - 4
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
ESP base pay range per year: €85,000 - €115,000
Additional benefits include:
Location - Remote Spain
We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role.
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Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
We 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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