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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal reporting)

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

Poland only

Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 2 days ago

Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Poland only

Timezone

CET ±2

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

Category

Software

This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $200k–$275k a year, a typical range taken from 597 lead-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Poland. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Remote Poland"
  • Job description states: "based in San Francisco or Los Angeles"

What Nomaders makes of it

  • Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only

The quotes above are the employer's own words; the reading is ours. Always check the original listing and employment terms before working from another country.

About the role

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Deal Reporting team is responsible for building our critical capital partner integrations, as well as services to automate funding processes safely and reliably. We partner with Product and Capitals Markets teams to understand and implement complex financial structures, integrations and reporting. We are looking for a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to help empower Deal Reporting's first international team, and build integrations, services, and testing infrastructure to power the funding of every Affirm loan. What You'll Do: · You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. · You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed. · You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes. · You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. · You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. · You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. What We Look For: · You have 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. · You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. · Knowledge of Spark and it’s inner workings is a must. · Knowledge on task orchestration systems like Airflow or Temporal is a good to have. · You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. · You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work. · Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers. · You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Total rewards

We believe the people building honest financial products at Affirm should share in its success. That's why our total rewards are designed to support your health, growth, financial well-being, and future.

In service of our mission, we reward employees through a combination of base pay, equity (from parent company), and comprehensive benefits.

Base Pay Grade - P

365,000 zł - 485,000 zł

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).

Base pay ranges and placement within those ranges are determined based on several factors, including role, experience, and job-related skills.

In addition to base pay, all employees in this role are eligible to receive equity from the parent company each year. This means as Affirm’s parent company grows, employees have the opportunity to share in that growth financially.

Equity Grade - 4 (awarded in US Dollars)

Affirm Holdings, Inc. Equity Grade example

Equity grade: 5 New hire equity: $48,000-$72,000 Annual Refresh: $15,000 Reward equity: $0-$225,000

Affirm also provides flexible spending wallets to all employees for technology and wellbeing related needs, which are reimbursable up to 1390 zł per month.

In addition to your compensation, our comprehensive benefits are designed to support you and the people who matter most. Benefits include:

Competitive paid time off, paid public holidays, and additional paid Away Days to rest and recharge.

Comprehensive private healthcare through Lux Med's Platinum package.

A MultiSport card to support your health and well-being.

Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally.

Family healthcare support through Maven and parental leave support through Parentaly.

Mental well-being support through Lyra, including up to 12 confidential counseling or coaching sessions each year for you and your household members.

Financial well-being support through Northstar, with unlimited access to Certified.

Financial Advisors and planning tools at no cost to you.

Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

Benefits

No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Affirm, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (CET ±2).
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 3d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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