Job Description

Company Information

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.

Position Overview

The vision for the Batch Infra team @ Affirm is to provide reliable, scalable, self-serve, and Affirm-optimized compute solutions to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining a compute platform that serves as a backbone for processing various business-critical batch workloads at Affirm through a wide suite of scheduled and on-demand compute solutions built on the cloud. Affirm is growing rapidly, and so is the need for reliable and high-availability frameworks. If solving infrastructure challenges at scale excites you, come join us!

Responsibilities

• Ownership and Delivery: Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• Collaboration: Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics, participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify project, process, technology, or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Operations and Availability: Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Culture of Quality: Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Talent Development: Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• 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.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
• Ability to write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Proficiency at making significant changes in a large codebase, and experience developing a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, manager, and stakeholders.
• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Pay Grade: N
• Equity Grade: 8
• Pay Structure: Affirm focuses on a simple and transparent pay structure based on location, experience, and job-related skills. Employees new to Affirm typically start at the beginning of the pay range.
• Total Compensation: Includes base pay, equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents).
• USA Base Pay Range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000
• USA Base Pay Range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000

Location Type

#LI-Remote

Employment Type