Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Machine Learning Platform)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
The ML Platform team's mission is to develop a self-service foundation for applications of machine learning that will provide scalable business impact. This team works in close partnership with ML engineers to deliver systems that enable fast paced ML development. Affirm's goal is to build the largest network as measured by the number of users and merchants. Machine learning is a critical tool in this effort.
We are looking for highly motivated staff engineers to help. Come join us!
What you'll do

• Design and build Affirm's next generation ML inference server and ML API gateway
• Develop infrastructure for training and serving ML models at scale across multiple regions
• Design self-service and user-friendly tools, APIs, and services that power all of ML at Affirm
• Partner with ML engineers, product engineers, and platform infrastructure engineers to launch impactful new initiatives; your systems will launch models that decide who we lend to in real time
• Serve as a trusted advisor on the application and implementation of ML across Affirm

What we look for

• 7+ years of experience
• Strong engineering background and demonstrated experience with building data infrastructure and real-time, distributed systems
• Experience with data frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Airflow, and Flink
• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS
• Experience with Python
• Experience or strong interest in developing ML models
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including the capability to drive requirements with product and engineering teams and present technical concepts and results in an audience-appropriate way
• Ability to work efficiently both solo and as part of a team; willingness to learn new things and mentor others
• Passion to change consumer banking for the better, while developing a deeper understanding of machine learning systems

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade: USA31
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If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways-not just candidates who check all the boxes.
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