Senior Software Engineer, Affirm
Online Storage
$169-240k
Salary dependent on location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$169-240k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science with 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership exposure and experience mentoring junior engineers
- In-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale database deployments in a production environment
- Expertise in distributed databases and database technologies such as MySQL InnoDB storage (Preferred), Postgres, Spanner, Vitess, TiDB, CockroachDB etc
- Solid understanding of distributed database architecture, data modeling, and performance tuning. Particularly, expertise in SQL tuning and performance optimization techniques
- Expertise in Database/Table and backup-recovery management
- Expertise in SQL tuning and performance optimization techniques
- Expertise in database benchmarking, load testings, and capacity planning
- Familiarity with connection poolers and proxies such as ProxySQL, RDS Proxy, Pg Bouncer, etc
- Proficiency in Python or Kotlin or both
- Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
- Experience building software with IaC (terraform or crossplane) frameworks and tools
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Expertise to create and triage database alerts and issues, identify root causes, and implement corrective solutions
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- The Online Storage team provides a set of managed databases as a platform, used to persist data for all Affirm services
- Our platform automates operations and development on services on top of storage systems like AWS Aurora (MySQL), DynamoDB, and S3
- As a team, we are responsible for various data and access patterns, including but not limited to mission-critical financial transactional data, data science models, and any new persistence use case requiring us to learn and gain deep expertise in various database systems
- Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale
- As a member of the Online Storage team, you will combine a strong understanding of application architecture, smooth developer experiences and fast-paced execution to deliver a powerful self-serve system to help Affirm scale easily
- This will need you to apply a customer-centric approach across the engineering organization to help the team craft and execute on a long-term roadmap
- As a member of the Online Storage team, you will collaborate with other teams - including product, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering(SRE) to:
- Leading projects towards improving our database architecture, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Working with engineers managing Affirm’s distributed database technologies, particularly AWS Aurora MySQL, Distributed SQL, and eventually expanding to DynamoDB and Caching
- Design, build and highly durable and strongly consistent database as service architecture
- Design and build solutions at scale for challenges such as multi-region, active resharding and globally available services
- Work closely with product teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust database solutions
- Assist partners achieve better query performance by suggesting better query optimizations and effective schemas
- Develop and enforce best practices in database design and management, ensuring data integrity, security, and optimal performance
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in transactional databases to continually enhance our systems and processes
- Participating in an on-call rotation and collaborating with other teams, such as SRE, to solve production issues
- Leading and mentoring engineers to define and execute on roadmap aligned with stakeholder needs
- You will also have the opportunity to learn bleeding edge open source technologies as we build the future of Affirm’s Online Storage platform
- In this role, you’ll understand the exciting challenges of helping a fast-growing company move towards a service-oriented architecture - diving into the scaling and availability challenges of infrastructural components that are the fundamental building blocks of a large scale system
- You’ll hone your ability to anticipate and recognize how to apply different technologies to solve a wide array of real world problems across the organization - all while building teams and working cross functionally with hardworking peers
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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