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Salary: USD 173,000 - 255,000 / annual
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, offering buy-now-pay-later solutions without hidden fees or compounding interest. The Batch Infrastructure team provides reliable, scalable, self-serve compute solutions enabling ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success across the company.
In this role, you will own quarterly goals and lead engineers through ambiguous, open-ended infrastructure challenges at scale. You'll collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints and partner on decisions balancing risks and trade-offs. You'll proactively identify and advocate for solutions to project, process, technology, and business issues.
Key responsibilities include supporting operations and availability of team artifacts through metrics creation and monitoring, fostering a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and developing talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example. You'll help maintain "keep the lights on" operations and participate in on-call efforts.
You bring 4+ years of backend systems design and development at scale using Python or Kotlin, with a track record building highly available distributed systems on AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. You have hands-on experience with workflow orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Flyte, Prefect, Temporal, Luigi) and scaling frameworks like Spark/Flink for large datasets on Kubernetes. You excel at defining technical plans for significant features with elegant, simple, extensible designs, writing high-quality code others can easily understand and use. You're proficient at making significant changes in large codebases safely, take ownership of your growth, and communicate effectively with global engineering teams.
