Senior Software Engineer, Backend – ML Feature Platform
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Senior backend engineer building scalable ML feature platforms for Affirm’s pay-over-time technology. Leading distributed systems, reliability, technical standards, and team delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team
- Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
- Support team members throughout delivery
- Collaborate with product management, design and analytics during ideation and product development
- Articulate technical constraints and partner on risk and trade-off decisions
- Identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology and business issues
- Create and monitor metrics for team artifacts
- Escalate issues and support keep-the-lights-on and on-call efforts
- Establish and improve code review and design standards
- Advocate for engineering standards through writing and tech talks
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance and leading by example
- Build and operate feature creation, exploration, serving, data storage, availability, visibility and offline backfilling infrastructure for ML and decisioning
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
- Experience using languages like Python or Kotlin
- Track record developing highly available distributed systems
- Experience with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
- Ability to define technical plans for significant features or system components
- Elegant, simple and extensible design skills
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable code
- Proficiency making significant changes in a large code base
- Experience developing tools and practices for safe codebase changes
- Ownership of professional growth and proactive feedback-seeking
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Must reside in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan
Benefits:
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents
- Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Flexible time off
- Generous holiday calendars
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount
- Remote-first flexibility
- Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities
- In-person onboarding experience for all new hires
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