Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Search Platform)

Staff Software Engineer (Search Platform)

Remote Spain

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Search Platform team is building the next generation of Affirm Marketplace Search, helping millions of consumers find the best financing options with increasingly relevant search results.

We are a high-impact team leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build and maintain a highly available, scalable search platform. Our work directly shapes the user experience, driving business growth and innovation.

As part of our team, you will collaborate with cross-functional product, engineering, and data science teams to experiment, iterate, and optimize search relevance. Solve complex technical challenges in information retrieval, ranking, embeddings, and large-scale distributed systems, and work in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment where your ideas and contributions will have a direct impact.

We foster a supportive and collaborative culture, where engineers take ownership, challenge the status quo, and grow together. If you're excited about search, machine learning, and building impactful consumer experiences, come join us in shaping the future of Affirm’s Marketplace!

What You'll Do

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team connect it with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by working with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support "keep the lights on" and on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
• Participate in an on-call rotation as a role requirement.

What We Look For

Base Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - 6

Affirm offers a transparent pay structure based on location, experience, and skills, including benefits like health coverage, stipends, and equity rewards.

This role requires residency in Spain and offers visa sponsorship.

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