Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Test Enablers)

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Remote SpainFull-TimeSenior
Salary€86,000 - €122,000 per year
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
PythonJavaKotlinCI/CDDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong backend engineering experience with Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar languages.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, platform infrastructure, internal developer tools, or testing infrastructure.
  • Strong ownership and ability to independently drive ambiguous technical work to completion.
  • Experience improving system reliability, observability, operational maturity, and maintainability.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including async artifacts such as technical specs, RFCs, ADRs, and project plans.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals across system design, testing, debugging, reliability, and production operations.
  • Experience with test automation frameworks, test data systems, mocks, contract testing, integration testing, load testing and CI/CD platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable systems for synthetic identities, test data seeding, mocking, load testing, and deterministic validation workflows.
  • Help evolve Affirm’s testing strategy toward a scalable model with stronger component, integration, contract, performance, and targeted E2E testing.
  • Build platform capabilities that make production-like load testing safer, more repeatable, and easier to operate.
  • Lead medium-to-large technical projects from ambiguous problem definition through design, implementation, rollout, and operational ownership.
  • Improve reliability and operational maturity through dashboards, SLOs, alerts, runbooks, and clear ownership models.
  • Review code and technical designs, provide constructive feedback, and help raise engineering standards.
  • Mentor engineers and help build a culture of practical testing excellence.
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