Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Recoveries)

AffirmFinancial technology

Remote Spain; require that someone is based in Spain for the role.Full-TimeStaff

Salary103,000 - 139,000 EUR per year

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Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
Be proficient in designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
Have experience with technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
Have experience designing and operating correctness-sensitive batch, asynchronous, or data-processing systems.
Be familiar with scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling.
Have experience architecting solutions across complex systems and organizational boundaries.
Be comfortable driving changes beyond immediate ownership across backend services and customer-facing applications.
Have experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, through technical and execution plans.
Write high-quality code that is understandable and reusable by others.
Be comfortable working from low-level language idioms through large-system architecture.
Have a track record of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
Have strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with the global engineering team.
Participate in an on-call rotation.

Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and connect it to critical business projects.
Shape the Recoveries platform and drive cross-team initiatives to optimize recovery strategies and enable flexible customer-facing experiences.
Strengthen the reliability and scalability of financial and partner integrations.
Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle.
Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes.
Own team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
Set code review and design standards, and advocate for them through writing and tech talks.
Develop team talent by providing feedback and guidance and leading by example.

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