Senior Software Engineer (Backend) W2 - Full Time

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to push our product and platform in new directions while also shaping the next iterations of the features our customers already love. From front-end usability to backend algorithms, async workers, to event-driven messaging systems, you’ll hone your skills across multiple domains while helping to drive forward the Affinity product and vision.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own product areas that are critical to the success of our customers and our business
• Drive the technical best practices that allow our platform to exceed its performance goals and help to increase engineering velocity

Work 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
• Grow your expertise and fluency with core pieces of technology across the entire application stack

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.

Required:

• You take pride in delivering high-quality and powerful products to customers while also championing technical excellence
• You have 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, including familiarity with the different pieces of technology involved in building modern web applications
• You’ve worked with a variety of web APIs and developed backend services using modern OOP practices
• You have a strong understanding of relational or NoSQL databases and the ability to design and implement systems that scale and avoid bottlenecks
• You’ve helped your teams solve high-scale challenges, integrate systems, or harden your product’s security posture
• You’re excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams
• You’re eager to contribute your ideas and experiences to help Affinity continuously improve as a product and as a company

Nice to have:

• Experience working with Ruby, PostgreSQL.

Tech stack

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.

What you’ll enjoy at Affinity

• We live our values as playmakers who are obsessed with learning, care personally about our colleagues and clients, are radically open-minded, and take pride in everything we do.
• We pay your medical, dental, and vision insurance with comprehensive PPO and HMO plans. And provide flexible personal & sick days. We want our team to be happy and healthy 🙂
• We offer a 401k plan to help you plan for retirement.
• We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program – after all, one of our core values is that we’re #obsessedwithlearning!
• We support our employee’s overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment.
• Virtual team building and socials. Keeping people connected is essential.

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