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Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Merchant Data Platform
Location
Poland
Posted
87 days ago
Salary
zł301K - zł401K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Merchant Data Platform
Affirm
• Owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. • Supporting peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics. • Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues, advocating for them, and leading in solving them. • Driving detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance. • Supporting operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. • Contributing to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process. • Mentoring engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing. • Owning the availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
Job Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
- Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin.
- Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
- Expert at synthesizing complex business products and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
- Comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
- Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. Writing high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
- Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
- Demonstrates ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental benefits
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
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