Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Online Storage

🕒 September 30

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $173k - $233k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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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 operate the control plane for large-scale distributed SQL databases such as MySQL and TiDB • Automate database provisioning, failover, backups, and upgrades end to end • Design and execute reliability-focused schema and data migrations across multi-tenant database clusters with zero downtime • Own the Kubernetes networking stack connecting services to storage, including ProxySQL • Tune networking for latency, resilience, and failover • Own and deliver quarterly team goals • Lead engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems and support delivery • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics on ideation, technical constraints, risks, and trade-offs • Identify and lead solutions for project, process, technology, and business issues • Create and monitor metrics, escalate issues, and support on-call operations • Establish and improve code review and design standards • Advocate for engineering standards through writing and tech talks • Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer • Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Terraform, and Kubernetes • In-depth hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in production • Expertise in distributed databases and technologies such as MySQL, TiDB, Postgres, Spanner, Vitess, and CockroachDB • Understanding of distributed database architecture, data modeling, and performance tuning • Expertise in SQL tuning and performance optimization • Experience with database benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning • Familiarity with connection poolers and proxies such as ProxySQL, RDS Proxy, PgBouncer, and PgDog • Experience building database control-plane or automation tooling, ideally on Kubernetes • Experience executing zero-downtime migrations and major version upgrades on production databases • Experience building CLI tooling or runbooks for repeatable database procedures • Understanding of Kubernetes networking, service discovery, and TLS • Experience defining technical plans for significant features or system components • Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code • Proficiency making significant changes in large codebases • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience • Strong verbal and written communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Monthly stipends for tech setup • Monthly health and wellness spending stipends • Flexible time off • Generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount • Remote-first work flexibility • In-person onboarding experience • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities

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