Staff Software Engineer - Batch Infrastructure

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We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company$1. !$1

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• Shape the technical direction, strategy, and roadmap for Batch Infra platform that forms the backbone for several thousands of offline workloads at affirm. • Design and build data infrastructure systems, services and tools to handle new Affirm products and business requirements that securely scale over millions of users and their transactions. • Build frameworks and services which will be used by other engineering teams at Affirm to manage billions of dollars in loans and power customer experiences. • Improve the reliability and efficiency of the Batch Infrastructure at scale and high reliability. • Engage other teams at Affirm about their use of the Batch platform to ensure we are always building the right thing. • Take an active role in mentoring junior engineers, lead and implement the processes that support team growth and efficiency.

Requirements

• Strong sense of ownership with a proven track record of successfully driving large cross-functional technical programs. • Experience building and owning large-scale, geographically distributed compute, and data processing systems. • Experience building and owning data lake solutions like Iceberg, Hudi, Delta, etc. • Experience building and managing Workflow Orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Flyte, Prefect, Temporal, Luigi, etc. • Experience with or working knowledge for efficiently scaling frameworks like Spark/Flink for extremely large scale datasets on Kubernetes. • Skilled at developing and debugging in Python/Kotlin or the ability to learn them quickly. • Working knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases. • Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers. • Technical leadership; capable of handling mentorship, cross functional project execution, and solid individual contribution. • Demonstrated ability to deliver on complex technical projects by collaborating closely with stakeholders. • Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset. • Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication. • Experience working in the data infrastructure domain.

Benefits

• 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 - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount