Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Privacy Engineering)
Overview
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.
Job Description
At Affirm, data is fundamental to everything we do. Our data and storage solutions empower machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud-based technologies, and other modern tools to create differential and scalable products. We prioritize building our own technology and investing in engineering talent, as we believe these are enduring competitive advantages that are difficult to replicate.
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with other teams including product, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering (SRE)
- - Lead and mentor engineers to define and execute on a roadmap aligned with stakeholder needs
- - Design, build, and maintain highly durable and strongly consistent cloud based storage solutions
- - Design, build and own an infrastructure platform that provides critical support for operating database systems at scale
- - Design and build structured storage solutions that solve for privacy first storage solutions
- - Collaborate with other teams on their database needs and provide continuous guidance on design and architecture
- - Participate in an on-call rotation and collaborate with other teams such as SRE to solve production issues
Required Skills
- - 5+ years of development experience
- - Experience leading design and execution and delivery of backend software projects
- - Hands-on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
- - Experience with designing and owning highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems using cloud storage services
- - Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure, GCP
- - Experience with building and operating data privacy related engineering services and infrastructure is a plus
- - Strong understanding of CS fundamentals such as Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems, algorithms, and data structures
- - Experience building software for database administration or experience with devops for databases is a plus
- - Working knowledge of OLAP systems like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery and Table formats like Apache Iceberg, HUDI, Delta Lake is a plus
- - Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset
- - Experience working in Database, SRE, or Infrastructure teams in the past, or have operated a distributed data storage system such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, or others
- - Experience with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Benefits
- - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- - Learning & Development programs
- - Parental leave
- - 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
About the company
We started Affirm because credit cards aren’t working. They lure us in with perks, but end up costing a lot: The average U.S. household has $6,000 in credit card debt. With Affirm, you’ll never owe more than you agree to up front. Instead, you’ll always get a flexible, transparent, and convenient way to pay over time.