Senior Software Engineer I

With our growing customer base and our expansion into new markets and use cases, we have more to build than ever at Affinity as we execute on our vision to put relationship intelligence at every professional's fingertips.

As a Senior Software Engineer I on the Sourcing team, you'll have the opportunity to push the boundaries of a brand new product within our space. 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 Sourcing 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
• Collaborate across team boundaries and with product, design, and data 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 5+ 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

Tech stack:

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. We’re leaning into event-driven architecture using Kafka. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.

How we work:

Our culture is a key part of how we operate as well as our hiring process:

• We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be able to cut through it, and deliver incremental value to our customers each sprint.
• We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring personally with each person we interact with. 
• We make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based on the information available.

Join us in enabling every professional on the planet to succeed by harnessing the power of their relationships.

If you’d want to learn more about our values click here.

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.
• Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days. We want our team to be happy and healthy :)
• 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.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any variable pay, equity, or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity, or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job. 

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $94,600 - $156,000 CAD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.