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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming Infrastructure)

1 hour, 51 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
Apache Spark AWS Beam Flink Kotlin Kubernetes MySQL Python Samza
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Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
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Description

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team while guiding engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to shape product decisions and surface technical constraints and trade-offs.
  • Identify project, process, technology, and business issues proactively and lead efforts to resolve them.
  • Support the operations and availability of team systems by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating issues, and participating in on-call support.
  • Set and improve code review and design standards, and advocate for quality and ownership through writing and tech talks.
  • Help develop team talent by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
  • Identify and execute new use cases for streaming data infrastructure and frameworks.
  • Design and scale existing streaming infrastructure and real-time data processing pipelines.
  • Work closely with other teams to promote the effective use of data across the company.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • Experience building highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Expertise with at least one stream processing framework such as Spark, Samza, Flink, or Beam.
  • Experience with Confluent Platform tools such as Schema Registry and Tableflow is a strong plus.
  • Ability to define a technical plan for a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
  • Ability to make significant changes in a large codebase and develop tools and practices that enable safe changes.
  • Demonstrated ownership of personal growth and comfort seeking feedback from team members, managers, and stakeholders.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
  • Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with the ability to work almost anywhere in the country of employment.
  • Base salary range of $169,000-$219,000 for most U.S. states and $190,000-$240,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT.
  • Total compensation may include equity rewards.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with a discount on Affirm shares.

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