Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Affirm
💵 $200k-$275k
📍Remote - United States
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Summary
Join Affirm's ML Platform team and contribute to building the core infrastructure powering Affirm's credit assessment system. You will set technical strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure the operational excellence of the ML platform. Responsibilities include defining technical solutions, managing team operations, fostering a culture of quality, and developing team talent. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in backend system design, distributed systems, and real-time ML infrastructure. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including a comprehensive benefits plan, equity rewards, and stipends.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- Have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
- Have experience building and operating online, real-time ML infrastructure like a model server or a feature store
- Have experience developing an offline environment for large scale data analysis and model training using technologies like Spark, Kubeflow, Ray, and Airflow
- Have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
- Thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
- Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
- Collaborate across teams in the ML development lifecycle by collaborating with machine learning engineers, platform engineers, and product management to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
- Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
- Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
- Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
- Equity rewards
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- 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
- Remote work
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