Senior Lakehouse Infra Engineer - Remote-First

Affirm; St. Louis (MO); Remote; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage 100% for you and your家

ESPP – stock purchase plan

Monthly stipends for health, wellness,

Flexible time off

Generous holidays

Job summary

Affimr is a remote-first company building scalable data infrastructure to power online payments and money movement. We seek an engineer to own backend systems, drive reliability, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to deliver high-impact features.

You will design and scale services using Python/Kotlin, AWS, and Kubernetes, while promoting code quality, ownership, and strong cross-functional communication across a global team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Proven track record of highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Defined a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with an elegant design.
• Able to make substantial changes in a large codebase safely.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth and proactive feedback seeking.
• Strong written and verbal communication for a global team.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics in the lifecycle of product development.
• Identify and lead resolution of project, process or technology issues.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts and on-call efforts.
• Set and promote code review and design standards across the team.
• Develop talent by providing feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend

Distributed systems

Code quality

Ownership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Iceberg

Flink

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Snowflake

Terraform

Job description

Affimr is a remote-first company building scalable data infrastructure to power online payments and money movement. We seek an engineer to own backend systems, drive reliability, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to deliver high-impact features.

You will design and scale services using Python/Kotlin, AWS, and Kubernetes, while promoting code quality, ownership, and strong cross-functional communication across a global team.