Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Batch Infrastructure)

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

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Batch Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. You will support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design, and analytics, 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' and on-call efforts. You will foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks. You will 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 that enable safe changes.
• Take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, manager, and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.

Base pay range per year: $153,000 - $213,000 CAD. Total compensation package 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. Additional benefits include Flexible Spending Wallets with generous stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses, competitive vacation and holiday schedules, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Pay Grade - N, Equity Grade - 6.