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Senior Backend Engineer


At Affirm/Returnly, we value you as a whole person. We care about the skill set you bring to the table, but more importantly, we care about the kind of person you are and the culture and attitude you bring to the table. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help build solutions that will be used by thousands of customers. You will find success in this role if you are a seasoned software engineer who appreciates real, technical challenges and building high-quality services.

What you'll do

  • Build and enhance a highly configurable system that is used by thousands of companies and millions of shoppers
  • Work with a highly collaborative team, where you will solve challenging problems
  • Review each other’s code and pair-program to spread knowledge and produce higher-quality code
  • Drive quality by writing unit, integration, and performance tests in a continuous delivery environment
  • Make decisions based on data and be pragmatic
  • Work closely with Product and Leadership
  • Help define and prioritize features
  • Produce documentation that helps the team understand complex parts of the system
  • Go beyond engineering by working closely with our support representatives where we help triage and debug technical support requests

What we look for

  • 6+ years industry experience and expert knowledge using JVM languages; Spring Boot and functional languages is a big plus
  • Strong familiarity with *nix environment including bash and command-line tools
  • Deep understanding of database methodology and database systems and strong experience with relational and non-relational databases 
  • Familiarity with RDBMS design for both OLTP and Data Warehousing is a plus
  • Excellent knowledge of web service technologies, architectures, patterns and REST best-practices
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems in a cloud environment (AWS a plus!), and event-driven architectures
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required. Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken is a must for communicating with a global team
  • Startup experience, and/or demonstrable contributions to open source projects or similar is a big plus

Location - Remote Spain

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