Affirm is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join us in shaping the technical direction, strategy, and roadmap for Affirm's Batch Infra platform. As a key member of our team, you will design and build data infrastructure systems, services, and tools to handle new products and business requirements, improving reliability and efficiency at scale.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

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