engineering
Posted 2 days agoSenior Software Engineer, Backend (ML Feature Platform)
at Affirm
CanadaRemote
Requirements
- ML Feature Platform is one of the two teams that compose the ML Platform at Affirm, the other team being ML Training & Serving Platform.
- The two platform teams work closely together to create the ML + Data flywheel that empowers Affirm.
- ML Feature Platform’s mission is to: Grow Affirm’s business by building a delightful, self-serve platform for developing and serving data for machine learning and decisioning.
- This scope means your work will have a direct impact on the everyday lives and capabilities for our end users: MLEs, Analysts, and decisioning teams.
- Additionally as the primary data source for ML and online decisioning, our platform’s performance is critical to Affirm’s availability and latency goals. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about ML enablement and believe that platform level improvements can bring snowball effects across the company. What You'll Do
- experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. You have
- experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
- You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. Your
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
Experience
- You have 4+ years of
Benefits
- This posting is for an existing vacancy. Pay Grade - N Equity Grade - 6
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
- Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and
- benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.) In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
- CAN base pay range per year: 153,000 - 213,000 #LI-Remote
- benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Additional details
- 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.
- As the feature platform team, we own multiple artifacts that in aggregate own the end-to-end flows for features. This includes: •
- Offline backfilling infrastructure and platform improvements
- You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
- 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 proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
- 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 foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. What We Look For
- You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.