Software Engineer II, Backend, Online Storage

🔥 1 hour ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $133k - $183k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Build and scale Affirm’s Cache Services on Redis and Valkey • Own cluster migrations end to end and deliver them in phases • Productionize cache clusters through capacity and shard planning, failover and replication setup, upgrades and staged rollouts • Automate provisioning, configuration changes and access through audited self-service workflows • Operate the production fleet by defining SLOs, building alerts and reducing keep-the-lights-on work • Partner with client teams on caching strategy, including key design, TTLs, consistency and client timeouts • Break larger projects into tasks and deliver them in multiple phases • Collaborate with product management, design and analytics on product development decisions and trade-offs • Create and monitor metrics, escalate issues and support on-call operations • Participate in growth and development activities, including interviews

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer • Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems • Proficiency in Python or Kotlin • Familiarity with distributed systems, AWS, MySQL, Redis/Valkey, Terraform and Kubernetes • Production experience with Redis, Valkey or a comparable in-memory store • Understanding of replication, persistence, cluster mode, eviction and failure modes • Ability to reason about hit rates, tail latency, hot keys, stampedes and consistency • Experience automating infrastructure operations with Terraform, Kubernetes and Python • Experience carrying on-call for a stateful service • Ability to write clear, well-tested and extensible code across multiple software components • Comfort navigating large codebases, debugging code and conducting code reviews • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Must 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 time off • Generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities • In-person onboarding experience for all new hires