Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Account Management

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About the role

  • Senior backend engineer building high-availability orchestration systems for Affirm’s buy-now-pay-later platform. Leading delivery, technical standards, reliability, and engineering talent development.

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team
  • Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
  • Support team members throughout delivery
  • Collaborate with product management, design and analytics during ideation and product development
  • Articulate technical constraints and partner on decisions considering risks and trade-offs
  • Identify, advocate for, and lead resolution of project, process, technology or business issues
  • Create and monitor metrics for team artifacts
  • Escalate issues and support keep-the-lights-on and on-call efforts
  • Set or improve code review and design standards
  • Advocate for quality and ownership through writing and tech talks
  • Develop team talent through feedback and guidance
  • Build backend orchestration layers driving Web and Mobile surfaces
  • Own and deliver high-availability, low-latency systems

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
  • Experience using languages like Python or Kotlin
  • Track record developing highly available distributed systems
  • Experience with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
  • Experience working close to web and mobile layers
  • Understanding of frontend design patterns such as fraud prevention and backend-for-frontend
  • Experience defining technical plans for significant features or system components
  • Elegant, simple and extensible design skills
  • Ability to write high-quality, understandable code
  • Proficiency making significant changes in a large code base safely
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Reside in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan

Benefits

  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents
  • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • Flexible Spending Wallets with stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
  • Employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy Affirm shares at a discount
  • Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$153,000 - CA$213,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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