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. The company uses advanced technology and analytics to serve a broad 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. The team provides reliable, scalable, self-serve, and Affirm-optimized compute solutions to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success, through a wide suite of scheduled and on-demand compute solutions built on the cloud.

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design, and analytics.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology, or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Support 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.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance.

• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Base pay range per year: $153,000 - $213,000 CAD. Total compensation 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.

Benefits include flexible time off, generous holiday calendars, and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) that lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.

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