Senior Staff Software Engineer

ECL Kontor; Saskatoon; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to redefine the technical landscape of their engineering organization. This exciting role focuses on building scalable, reliable systems and developing technology strategies that drive critical initiatives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. If you are passionate about creating user-focused products and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a remote-first company that values collaboration and is committed to improving lives through honest financial products.

Qualifications

• Solid CS fundamentals and fluency in a dynamically typed language.
• Experience building real-time distributed web services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform services and APIs.
• Architect and build data-processing pipelines.
• Analyze and debug performance issues across distributed services.

Skills

Python

Distributed Systems

Web Application Frameworks

Real-time Data Processing

Cross-team Collaboration

User Experience Focus

Education

Computer Science Fundamentals

Job description

Affirm 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.

Affirm is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a key role in defining the technical direction and foster innovation across the engineering organization. You’ll work closely with engineering leaders, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to create solutions that are scalable, reliable, and high-performing. You'll help shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset. You will be responsible for building large-scale distributed systems, and developing the overall technology strategy for a domain within our engineering org.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and extend core platform services and APIs to enable new products and features to be built
• Architect and build the next version of our data-processing pipeline
• Create 3rd party developer APIs and tools
• Analyze/debug performance issues across distributed services
• Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers

What We Look For

• Passionate: Passionate about Affirm's Mission: "Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives"
• Technical: Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language. We primarily use Python, but members of our team have backgrounds in a wide range of technologies
• Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers
• Humble: You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
• User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience
• Experienced: Background building real-time distributed web services, developing systems in web application frameworks and implementing highly available data storage

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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