Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)
Affirm
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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $162,237–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $225k versus about $188k for comparable roles.
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Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending
Affirm currently has 60 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $195,000–$255,000 across 60 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Batch Infrastructure), you will join the Batch Infra team to build and maintain a reliable, scalable compute platform that serves as the backbone for business-critical batch workloads. You will lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, manage the product development lifecycle in collaboration with stakeholders, and oversee the operations and availability of your team's artifacts. Your daily work involves designing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin while managing distributed systems involving AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. You will specifically build and manage workflow orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Flyte, Prefect, Temporal, or Luigi, and scale Spark or Flink for large datasets on Kubernetes. This role solves infrastructure challenges by providing optimized compute solutions to enable success across ML, Product, and Financial Engineering teams.
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