Senior Backend Engineer (Lakehouse Infrastructure)

Join Affirm as a Senior Backend Engineer on the Lakehouse Infrastructure team. You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals, collaborating with product management, design, and analytics, and supporting the operations and availability of your team's artifacts. You will also foster a culture of quality and ownership, help develop talent on your team, and enjoy a range of benefits including remote work, generous time off, and health benefits.

Responsibilities

• Responsable de la gestion et de la livraison des objectifs trimestriels de l'équipe, en guidant les ingénieurs à travers l'ambiguïté pour résoudre des problèmes ouverts.
• Collaborer avec la gestion de produit, le design et l'analytique tout au long du cycle de développement du produit, en participant à l'idéation et en articulant les contraintes techniques.
• Identifier proactivement les problèmes de projet, de processus, de technologie ou d'entreprise, et diriger la résolution de ces problèmes.

Requirements

• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 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
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• Experience scaling relevant technologies such as Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Terraform
• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders