[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Backend (ML Feature Platform) @Affirm

Role Description

ML Feature Platform is one of the two teams that compose the ML Platform at Affirm. The mission of ML Feature Platform is to:

• Grow Affirm’s business by building a delightful, self-serve platform for developing and serving data for machine learning and decisioning.

As the feature platform team, we own multiple artifacts that in aggregate own the end-to-end flows for features. This includes:

• Feature creation, exploration, and serving
• Data storage, availability, and visibility
• Offline backfilling infrastructure and platform improvements

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.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• 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.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Requirements

• Responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team.
• Lead engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance.

Benefits

• 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.