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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)Affirm • Kelowna, Regional District of Central Okanagan, CA
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)

Affirm • Kelowna, Regional District of Central Okanagan, CA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Streaming team at Affirm forms the backbone of several online and offline workloads at Affirm and drives the strategy for event driven architecture, stream processing, replication, data exploration, discovery and validation. We leverage existing open source technologies like Kafka, Flink, Spark and also build our own as needed to design and build real-time data processing pipelines that handle massive volumes of data across our distributed systems.

As a member of our team you would spend time identifying and executing on new use cases of streaming data infrastructure and frameworks , designing and scaling our existing infrastructure and working closely with other teams to promote the optimal use of data at the company. This role requires deep expertise in stream processing technologies and a passion for building scalable, fault-tolerant data infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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 and optimize high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines for critical business applications
  • 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.
  • Help support the Streaming team that forms the backbone for several online and offline workloads at affirm.
  • Improve the reliability and efficiency of the Data Platform at scale and high availability.
  • Collaborate with other teams at Affirm, including ML and Analytics, to deliver streaming solutions based on various use-cases and best practices
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain production streaming systems, ensuring high availability and reliability of data systems

What We Look For

  • 8+ years of industry experience in building large scale production systems.
  • Strong hands on experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming solutions for large-scale event streaming and message queueing
  • Experience building and operating robust and highly available infrastructure.
  • Experience working with data platforms like Snowflake, Glue or Databricks is a plus
  • Experience with Confluent Platform (Schema Registry, Tableflow) is a strong plus.
  • Expertise with at least one stream processing frameworks like Spark, Samza, Flink, Beam etc.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, and Kafka Schema Registry components, understanding its underlying functionality and implementation
  • Solid programming skills in Python, Java or Kotlin.
  • Experience with Apache Iceberg table format, CDC (Change Data Capture) tools is a strong plus
  • Knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases is a plus.
  • Experience leading technical projects and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Exceptionally collaborative with a history of delivering complex technical projects and working closely with stakeholders.
  • Location and Benefits

    Location - Remote Canada

    Pay Grade - P

    Equity Grade - 7

    Base pay range per year : $178,000 - $228,000

    Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.

    We offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first, including :

  • 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
  • Affirm is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

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