Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)
AffirmUnited States
Posted September 15, 2025
200000 - 275000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Affirm is a fintech company focused on improving consumer financial lives through innovative products like installment loans and online payments. As a remote-first organization, Affirm offers a dynamic work environment with comprehensive benefits, emphasizing transparency and honesty in its services. The company operates across various teams including engineering, product, finance, and marketing, dedicated to disrupting the traditional financial industry.
Job Description
Affirm is reinventing credit by making it more transparent and friendly, offering flexible buy-now-pay-later options. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build data infrastructure systems and optimize data pipelines for a rapidly growing loan processing and customer experience platform. This role requires expertise in stream processing technologies and a focus on scalability and reliability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in building large scale production systems.
- Strong hands on experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming solutions.
- Experience building and operating robust and highly available infrastructure.
- Experience working with data platforms like Snowflake, Glue or Databricks is a plus.
- Experience with Confluent Platform (Schema Registry, Tableflow) is a strong plus.
- Expertise with at least one stream processing frameworks like Spark, Samza, Flink, Beam etc.
- Experience with Kafka Connect and Kafka Schema Registry components.
- Solid programming skills in Python, Java or Kotlin.
- Experience with Apache Iceberg table format, CDC (Change Data Capture) tools is a strong plus
- Knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases is a plus.
Benefits
- Health care coverage
- Flexible Spending Wallets
- Time off
- ESPP
- Inclusive interview experience
- Reasonable accommodations for disabilities