Senior Backend Engineer - Data & Marketing Metrics

Affirm, Inc.; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first compensation structure

Health benefits

Parental leave

Away days

Learning & Development

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build data and measurement foundations that connect consumer acquisition activity to outcomes like signup, conversion, and GMV.

You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering and marketing technology, delivering reliable pipelines and identity/event systems. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering to integrate consent, tagging, identity, and consumer data requirements into measurement

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience building production data pipelines and analytical models using Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, including identity/attribution/conversion.
• Strong communication skills for collaborating with a global engineering team.
• Hands-on experience building marketing data and measurement systems (GTM/GA4, APIs, CDP, consent platforms).
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems (AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product, design, analytics and marketing on technical constraints and risk.
• Identify project, process, technology, or business issues and advocate for solutions.
• Monitor and improve team artifacts, metrics, and on-call reliability.
• Raise the bar on code quality and design standards across the team.

Skills

Backend design

Data pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership & accountability

Marketing data & measurement

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

GTM/sGTM

GA4

CDP

Conversion APIs

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build data and measurement foundations that connect consumer acquisition activity to outcomes like signup, conversion, and GMV.

You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering and marketing technology, delivering reliable pipelines and identity/event systems. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering to integrate consent, tagging, identity, and consumer data requirements into measurement