Overview
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming) — Affirm, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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 framework 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 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
Location - Remote Canada
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Grade - P; Equity Grade - 7. Base pay range per year : CAN base pay range : $178,000 - $228,000. Affirm is remote-first; some roles may be office-based. Benefits include health care coverage for you and dependents, Flexible Spending Wallets, time off, and ESPP. Eligible for equity rewards. Details may vary by location and experience.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior levelEmployment type
Full-timeJob function
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