Staff Software Engineer - Batch Infrastructure

April 15

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Affirm

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Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 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. • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

🏖️ 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