Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Batch Infrastructure)

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees or surprises. We help people pay over time for almost anything, using advanced technology and analytics that look beyond FICO to serve a broader population.

The Batch Infra team at Affirm is responsible for building and maintaining a compute platform that serves as the backbone for processing business-critical batch workloads at Affirm, through a wide suite of scheduled and on-demand compute solutions built on the cloud. The team's vision is to provide reliable, scalable, self-serve, and Affirm-optimized compute solutions to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success.

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics in the product development lifecycle, articulating technical constraints and partnering on decisions that consider risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology, or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Support the operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and managing workflow orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Flyte, Prefect, Temporal, Luigi, etc.
• Experience with or working knowledge for efficiently scaling frameworks like Spark/Flink for extremely large scale datasets on Kubernetes.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
• Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, with a suite of tools and practices to do so safely.
• Take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, manager, and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $195,000 - $255,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $173,000 - $233,000

Benefits include health coverage at no cost, spending stipends, flexible time off, generous holiday calendars, and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).

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