Affirm
Software Engineer II, Backend (Online Storage)
Remote Canada · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$133k-$183kDetected 4 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsSQLMySQLRedisDynamoDBAWSKubernetesTerraformRESTData ScienceCommunicationCollaboration
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57Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level III)83
Fits your clock70
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Green-card follow-through: 71%
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About the role
- Base Pay Grade - L Equity Grade - Canada 5 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.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale Affirm's Cache Services on Redis and Valkey, owning cluster migrations end to end and delivering them in phases against agreed outcomes.
- Operate the fleet in production: define SLOs, build alerting for hot keys, memory pressure and replication lag, and use on-call findings to reduce KTLO.
- Partner with client teams on caching strategy (key design, TTLs, consistency, client timeouts) and feed fleet data into the team's roadmap.
- With the support of your team's tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin.
- Familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL, Redis/Valkey, Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
- If you need support, we're happy to help.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code.
- For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law.
- Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law.
Skills
- These responsibilities require us to learn and gain deep expertise in various database systems.
Compensation
- 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 monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
- CAN base pay range per year: $133,000 - $183,000 $CAD.
Benefits
- Our benefits reflect our commitment to care, transparency, and flexibility.
- Health coverage at no cost:
- Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.
- Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.
Company info
- At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter-giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
- Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Affirm's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.