Full-Time Senior Software Engineer II

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you'll have the opportunity to push our product in new directions while also shaping the next iterations of the features our customers already love. You'll define the future of core pieces of our backend across areas like our data model and apis. From back-end algorithms to async workers to scalable applications, you'll hone your skills across multiple domains while helping to drive forward the Affinity product and vision.

In this role, you will:

• Be hands on and in the code for the core areas of our product, iterating on current data models and apis with performance and scalability in mind for current and future usage
• Act as a Tech Lead for large projects, collaborating closely with product to define the project scope and milestones, defining the technical direction, decomposing work to distribute across the team, and being accountable for outcomes
• Mentor other engineers and uplevel them in designing and building robust and scalable systems, as well as building and reinforcing a team ownership culture in observability and maintainability
• Collaborate across team boundaries and with product and design teams--you'll have the opportunity to learn from a wide variety of experiences and, of course, to share your own
• Proactively identify areas for technical investment within the team, be aligned with and help define the technical roadmap across engineering to adapt to changing needs of the business and our customers

Qualifications:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

• You have 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, including familiarity with the different pieces of technology involved in building modern web applications
• You have experience writing server-side code leveraging modern OOP practices using Ruby, Rails and PostgreSQL
• You have a strong understanding of relational databases and the ability to design and implement systems that scale and avoid performance bottlenecks
• You've helped your teams to solve high-scale challenges, and have experience working on large migration projects in the areas of data modeling and apis
• You care about setting up and owning core systems, with observability and long term support and maintenance in mind
• You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and as part of a cross functional team