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Software Engineer I, Backend (Collections)

Affirm· Financial Platforms - Engineering
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Remote€57k - €87k + equityContract of EmploymentPosted 3mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer (Backend) in the Collections team within Repayments, building the next generation platform to manage delinquent loans with high availability and reliability. Focus on designing, developing, and delivering robust collections solutions that scale.

Responsibilities

  • With the support of your team, you will work on tasks that contribute to the team's projects and goals.
  • On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement
  • You will work collaboratively and proactively with your team and stakeholders, bringing them along for your work and helping to create visibility and dialog regarding the risks and trade-offs related to your work.
  • You will strike the right balance of speed and quality in your work, ensuring that we hit our business goals while protecting our systems from downtime.
  • You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities

Qualifications

  • You have previous work or internship experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are experienced using one of Python or Kotlin.
  • You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
  • You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code.
  • You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
  • Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
  • You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsCode reviews and debuggingCommunication

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
  • Equity rewards (as part of total compensation)
  • ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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