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Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (International)

RemoteUnited Kingdom only
Published
Role
Fullstack
Experience
Senior
Employment
Full-time
Company size
Enterprise
£120k–£168k/yr
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No BS summary

Senior fullstack engineer with 4+ years, strong backend-at-scale experience and React or Vue web app shipping. Must be UK-based/eligible for UK remote employment. Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes are core stack signals.

Core skills

PythonKotlinReact/Vue

Required skills

AWSMySQLKubernetes

What you'll do

  • You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
  • You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
  • You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
  • You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
  • You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
  • You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What they require

  • You have a total of 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • You are experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • You have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
  • You efficiently use AI to assist you to deliver high quality products on a daily basis.
  • You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
  • You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
  • You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • Equity rewards.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending.
  • Benefits including 100% subsidised medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
  • Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company.
  • The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
  • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
  • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.
  • Reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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What people say about this company

3.7/ 5

£120k–£168k/yr