Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Batch Infrastructure)
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Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.
The vision for the Batch infra team is to provide reliable, scalable, self-serve, and Assert-optimized compute solution to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success. The team builds and maintains a compute platform serving as a backbone for processing various business?critical batch workloads at a wide suite of scheduled and on?demand compute solutions built on the cloud. Affirm is growing rapidly and so is the need for reliable and high availability frameworks. If solving infrastructure challenges at scale excites you, come join us!
What Youll Do
- Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open?ended problems, and ensuring everyone is supported throughout delivery.
- Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics, participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly 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 teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting "keep the lights on" & on?call efforts.
- 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.
- Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
What We Look For
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 of 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 easy to understand and use.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.Experience demonstrates that you 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 our global engineering team.Position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field.Compensation & Benefits
Base Pay Grade : N
Equity Grade : 8
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 : $190,000 - $240,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year : $169,000 - $219,000
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. For proximal roles, you can work remotely, but you will occasionally be required to work out of your assigned 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 employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount.Inclusion & EEO Statement
We believe its on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
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