Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Recoveries)Remote SpainAt 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 Recoveries team, part of affirm's Repayments area, builds the platform that determines the most effective way to recover value from charged-off loans while providing the best possible customer experience. We do this both by integrating with external recovery partners and by building our own customer-facing experiences that give customers flexible ways to resolve their outstanding balances.Our systems span the full recoveries lifecycle, including loan placement and recall, partner integrations, payments and remittances, reconciliation, bankruptcy workflows, and customer-facing recovery experiences. Recoveries operates at the intersection of engineering, product, risk, analytics, operations, finance, legal, and compliance, and our systems directly impact recovery outcomes while requiring a high degree of correctness, reliability, and regulatory compliance.We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help define the technical direction of the Recoveries platform as we scale our decisioning capabilities, expand internationally, strengthen our data integrity and reconciliation foundations, and build the next generation of recovery products.What You'll DoYou 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 help shape the evolution of the Recoveries platform, driving cross-team technical initiatives that optimize recovery strategies, enable flexible customer-facing experiences, and strengthen the reliability and scalability of our financial and partner integrations.You take ownership of your team's operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies,



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.What we look forYou have a total of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.You are proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and KubernetesYou have experience designing and operating correctness-sensitive batch, asynchronous, or data-processing systems, including scheduled workflows, backfills, reconciliation, observability, and robust failure handling.You have experience architecting solutions across complex systems and organizational boundaries, and are comfortable understanding and driving changes outside your immediate area of ownership—including across backend services and customer-facing applications to deliver end-to-end outcomes.You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.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).

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Wallets for tech, food and lifestyleAway Days - wellness days to take off work and rechargeEmployee Resource & Community GroupsWe are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role.Location - Remote SpainRemote-first with flexibility built in affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work.

Health coverage at no cost: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law. #

📌 Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Recoveries) (La Coruña)
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