Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Lakehouse Infra

Affirm

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Work type: Remote
Location: Canada
Salary: $195,000–$255,000 / yr
Posted: 14 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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About Affirm

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 64 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $195,000–$255,000 across 60 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Lakehouse Infra

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The Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lakehouse Infra) joins the Data and Storage Services team to build reliable, scalable, and self-serve offline data access for ML, Product, and Financial Engineering. You will own quarterly goals, lead engineers through ambiguity, and manage the product development lifecycle by collaborating with design and analytics. Daily responsibilities include identifying technical issues, monitoring metrics for high availability, and fostering a culture of quality through code reviews and tech talks. You will develop distributed systems using Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. The role requires scaling technologies such as Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Terraform. This position solves data lake challenges at scale, providing the backbone for processing business-critical money and loan movement workloads across batch and analytics ecosystems.

Skills

Python Kotlin AWS MySQL Kubernetes Iceberg Flink Airflow Spark Kafka Snowflake Terraform Distributed Systems OLTP OLAP

What you'll do

Own and deliver quarterly goals by leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended technical problems.
Support the product development lifecycle by articulating technical constraints and partnering on risk-based decisions.
Proactively identify and lead the resolution of project, process, technology, or business issues.
Maintain artifact availability by creating metrics, monitoring systems, and participating in on-call efforts.
Set and improve code review and design standards to foster a culture of quality and ownership.
Develop team talent by providing consistent feedback, guidance, and technical leadership.
Design and launch high-availability distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
Define technical plans for significant features using elegant, simple, and extensible designs.

What we're looking for

You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
You have experience scaling technologies such as Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Terraform.
You have experience defining technical plans for significant features with elegant, simple, and extensible designs.
You are proficient at making significant changes in large code bases and developing tools to do so safely.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills to support collaboration with a global engineering team.
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.