At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead backend engineering for scalable data infrastructure and solve complex data lake challenges.
- Company: Join a rapidly growing tech company focused on innovative data solutions.
- Benefits: Flexible remote work, generous time off, health benefits, and supportive communities.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and involvement in exciting learning programs.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on data-driven projects while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: 4+ years in backend systems, strong coding skills, and experience with relevant technologies.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for affirm’s data infrastructure across OLTP and OLAP systems, spanning critical online checkout databases, batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event-driven frameworks, BI, analytics tooling, large-scale data platforms, and agentic data tools such as semantic layers and internal platform data applications. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.
The vision for the Lakehouse Infra team is to provide reliable, scalable, self-serve and affirm-optimized offline data access to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success. Our team is responsible for hosting the data infrastructure that serves as a backbone for processing various business critical money and loan movement workloads at affirm across our batch and analytics ecosystems. Affirm is growing rapidly and so is the need for reliable and high availability frameworks. If solving data lake challenges at scale excites you, come join us!
You will be responsible for:
- Owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team.
- Leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
- Ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
- Supporting your 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 identifying project, process, technology or business issues, advocating for them, and leading in solving them.
- Supporting the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
- Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards.
- Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
Benefits:
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure.
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses.
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups.
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country.
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens.
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs.
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs.
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave, plus a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay.
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off.
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth.
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field. You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. You are 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. You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. Experience scaling relevant technologies such as Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Terraform. You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
Senior Backend Engineer employer: Affirm, Inc.
Affirm is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, particularly for the Staff Backend Engineer role in Canada. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to mentor fellow engineers and lead impactful projects that align with business goals, all while enjoying the flexibility of a remote work environment that promotes work-life balance.
