Software Engineer (Backend, Batch Developer Experience)

Affirm, Inc.; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Health benefits

Parental leave

Away days

Learning & Development

Spending wallets

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is hiring for a Batch Developer Experience software engineer to help build tools that streamline batch workloads.

You will partner with product and infrastructure engineers, break down projects, and deliver in phases while collaborating with stakeholders across the product lifecycle. You will work in a remote-first environment, with opportunities to develop backend systems in Python or Kotlin and to improve testing and reliability of critical workloads.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of software engineering experience in backend development.
• Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems.
• Proficient in Python or Kotlin and comfortable with large codebases.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and launch robust backend services.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics across multiple teams.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Support operations and on-call duties to keep services reliable.

Skills

Backend development

Code reviews

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

• The Batch Developer Experience team makes batch development and testing faster and more reliable at affirm
• As a developer on this team you will partner with product and infrastructure engineers to build the tools and systems that streamline workflows, strengthen testing and ultimately improve the reliability of affirm’s critical batch workloads
• With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process

Benefits

• Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
• Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
• Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
• Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
• Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
• Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
• Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
• Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
• Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
• Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth

You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible codeYou are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and KubernetesYou have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineerYou have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or KotlinYour experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholdersThis position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related fieldYou have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering teamYou are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others’ code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews