Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Batch Infrastructure) Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Batch Infrastructure) role at Affir. Affir 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. Vision for the Batch Infra team is to provide reliable, scalable, self?serve and Affir?optimized compute solution to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success. Our team builds and maintains a compute platform that serves as a backbone for processing various business critical batch workloads through scheduled and on?demand compute solutions built on the cloud. Affir 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 What Youll Do You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open?ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design and analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade?offs. You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them. You will support the operations and availability of your teams artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting keep the lights on and on?call efforts. You will 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 your writing and tech talks. You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. What We Look For You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin. You have 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. You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. You 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 Bachelors degree in a related field. Benefits Were extremely proud to offer competitive benefits anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: Health care coverage Affir 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 Affir at a discount. #J-18808-Ljbffr