Analytics Engineer II

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p>Financial Systems owns the data and reporting foundation for Accounting, and the operational reliability of the pipelines that power reporting, reconciliations, and automation. We are building a single source of truth for financial information using dbt and Snowflake to enable scalable BI and process automation across the org.</p> <p>We are hiring an Analytics Engineer focused on <strong>maintaining and optimizing our finance data platform</strong>, improving <strong>reliability, efficiency, and performance</strong> of our pipelines and core datasets. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys operational ownership, building strong foundations, and making data systems easier and safer to run at scale.</p> <h3>What You’ll Do</h3> <ul> <li>Build and maintain dbt models and core datasets that support Accounting reporting and downstream automation use cases.</li> <li>Improve platform <strong>reliability</strong> through strong testing patterns, alerting, and runbooks.</li> <li>Own and document data pipelines and lineage, ensuring changes are understandable and auditable.</li> <li>Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve production data issues, and drive root-cause fixes.</li> <li>Optimize performance and cost in Snowflake and dbt to support scaling needs.</li> <li>Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to translate requirements into durable, well-tested data assets.</li> <li>Contribute to the team’s best practices in version control, code review, documentation, and release hygiene (GitHub-based workflows).</li> </ul> <h3>What We Look For</h3> <ul> <li>3+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or similar roles working with production data systems.</li> <li>Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience building in dbt (modeling, testing, documentation).</li> <li>Experience operating in a modern development workflow: <ul> <li>Git and pull-request based collaboration (GitHub preferred).</li> <li>Familiarity with standard IDEs and collaborative debugging practices.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Experience working with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred).</li> <li>A strong sense of ownership and comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.</li> </ul> <h3>Nice to Have</h3> <ul> <li>Finance/accounting data familiarity (e.g., close concepts, reconciliations, ledger-style modeling).</li> <li>Experience with integration/automation platforms (Workato, Fivetran, or similar).</li> <li>Experience supporting reporting layers and BI tooling.</li> <li>Working knowledge of Python for data manipulation and automation.</li> <li>Familiarity with CI pipelines and quality gates for code quality, testing, and build validation.</li> <li>Interest in applying AI-assisted development responsibly within engineering guardrails.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Compensation and Benefits</strong></h3> <div> <p><strong>Base Pay Grade</strong>&nbsp;<strong>- K</strong></p> <p><strong>Equity Grade</strong>&nbsp;<strong>- Poland 2</strong></p> <p>Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.&nbsp;</p> <p>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). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).</p> <p>POL base pay range per year: <strong>226,000 zł - 346,000 zł</strong></p> <p>Additional benefits include:</p> <ul> <li>Type of employment: Contract of Employment</li> <li>Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle</li> <li>Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge</li> <li>Learning &amp; Development programs</li> <li>Parental benefits</li> <li>Employee Resource &amp; Community Groups</li> </ul> <p>This role is eligible for creative tax benefits,&nbsp;<em>subject to appli