Senior Backend Engineer - Data Lakehouse Infra (Remote)

Affirm; United States; À distance; USD 173 000 - 255 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health coverage for dependents

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Résumé du poste

Affim is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for Lakehouse Infra. This role focuses on building scalable data infrastructure across OLTP/OLAP, batch orchestration, streaming, and analytics tooling, with ownership of critical systems and on-call responsibilities.

The position requires 4+ years in backend design and distributed systems, with Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Remote-first with national scope in the United States, and generous benefits including health coverage,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Experience scaling Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Terraform.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Experience making significant changes in a large code base and creating tools to support safe delivery.
• Demonstrates ownership, seeks feedback from team and stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Responsabilités

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and mentor engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics on ideation and technical trade-offs.
• Proactively identify and solve project, process, technology or business issues.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts; monitor metrics and on-call efforts.
• Set or improve code review and design standards across the team and advocate beyond it.
• Develop talent on your team by providing feedback and leading by example.

Connaissances

Python

Kotlin

Backend design

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Iceberg

Flink

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Terraform

Formation

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Outils

Docker

SQL

Snowflake

Iceberg

Description du poste

Affim is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for Lakehouse Infra. This role focuses on building scalable data infrastructure across OLTP/OLAP, batch orchestration, streaming, and analytics tooling, with ownership of critical systems and on-call responsibilities.

The position requires 4+ years in backend design and distributed systems, with Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Remote-first with national scope in the United States, and generous benefits including health coverage,