About the job
At Affirm, we're revolutionizing credit to enhance transparency and accessibility, empowering consumers to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.
Be part of our innovative Servicing International team, pivotal to Affirm's global expansion, as we develop the core platform to introduce our offerings to a new era of international markets. This position will concentrate on purchase protection, including disputes and refunds—a vital component of the user journey and an area of substantial investment—to foster trust and satisfaction among our newest customers. Success in this role demands close collaboration; you will work alongside our European engineering teams and engineers from our global Servicing Engineering organization to create cohesive, scalable solutions. If you are driven by a passion for crafting exceptional user experiences and are excited about the prospect of launching products in new regions, we invite you to join us. Help shape the future of Affirm's platform and establish our global presence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead your team in achieving quarterly objectives, guiding engineers through ambiguity to address open-ended challenges while ensuring continuous support throughout the delivery process.
- Collaborate with peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle, engaging with product management, design, and analytics to participate in ideation and articulate technical constraints, while making decisions that appropriately weigh risks and trade-offs.
- Proactively identify and advocate for solutions to project, process, technology, or business issues.
- Monitor and support the operations and availability of your team's deliverables by establishing metrics, escalating issues when necessary, and contributing to ongoing maintenance and on-call responsibilities.
- Promote a culture of quality and ownership within your team by enhancing code review and design standards and advocating for best practices through documentation and technical presentations.
- Mentor and develop team talent by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 4 years of experience as a software engineer.
- Proficient in designing, developing, and deploying backend systems at scale using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experienced in delivering web applications with declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
- Skilled in defining a technical blueprint for significant feature or system component delivery with an emphasis on elegant, simple, and extensible design.

