Senior Software Engineer (Furnishing Platform)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Own and deliver strategic outcomes: Drive the definition and delivery of quarterly and long-term goals, ensuring your team''s work ladders up to company-wide objectives.
• - Lead engineers through ambiguity and open-ended problems, providing clarity and direction.
• - Shape architecture and technical strategy: Influence the design of large-scale data and backend systems across multiple teams.
• - Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with product, analytics, and design to define data-driven solutions.
• - Champion operational excellence: Ensure high availability and reliability of data pipelines and services by establishing strong monitoring, alerting, and recovery practices.
• - Mentor and grow talent: Guide engineers within and beyond your team through mentorship, code/design reviews, and technical leadership.
• - Scale impact beyond your team: Author technical proposals, share best practices via documentation and tech talks, and advocate for improvements that raise the bar for the broader data engineering community.
• - On-Call Rotation: This role requires participation in an on-call rotation.

Required Skills

• - Deep technical expertise: 6+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data pipelines and distributed backend systems, with strong proficiency in languages like Python, Kotlin, or similar.
• - Systems at scale: Proven track record of delivering high-volume, highly available systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• - Architectural leadership: Experience defining technical strategies for complex, cross-team initiatives.
• - Operational rigor: Skilled at building resilient systems with monitoring, alerting, and safe deployment practices.
• - Leadership and influence: History of mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and shaping best practices beyond your immediate group.
• - Strong communication: Excellent verbal and written skills that enable you to influence technical and product decisions across a global engineering org.

Benefits

• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• - Learning & Development programs
• - Parental benefits
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups
• - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• - Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• - ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount