Senior Software Engineer

• Own product areas that are essential to the success of our customers and our business. • Collaborate with world-class engineering, product, and design teams. You'll have the opportunity to learn from a wide variety of experiences and, of course, to share your own. • Drive the technical best practices for our APIs, integrations and IAM systems that allow our platform to exceed its performance goals and customers expectations. • Mentor other engineers to uplevel them individually and the team as a whole. • Promote operational excellence with focus on high reliability, performance, and scalability

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 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years of experience as a senior member of a team delivering end-to-end systems. • You’ve worked with a variety of web APIs and developed backend services using modern OOP practices. • You have a strong understanding of relational databases and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks at the database layer. • You’re comfortable troubleshooting across network, application, caching, queuing, and storage layers • You've helped your teams solve high-scale challenges, integrate systems, or develop business intelligence platforms. • You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. • You demonstrate strong ownership instincts and sweat the details. • You’re excited to work on a cross-functional team, partnering with product stakeholders, other teams, and subject matter experts • Language requirements: Proficient in English