# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lakehouse Infra) at Affirm

- Company: Affirm
- What the company does: Buy now pay later without the fees. Flexible payment options with longer plans, lower payments, and no fees. Pay in 4 interest-free or get more time and see your total cost upfront. Backed by Battery, Khosla and Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://www.affirm.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $173K to $233K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Apply by: 2026-11-27
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/affirm/jobs/8013442003?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/affirm-senior-software-engineer-backend-lakehouse-infra/

## About the role

The vision for the Lakehouse Infra team is to provide reliable, scalable, self-serve and Affirm-optimized offline data access to enable ML, Product, and Financial Engineering success. Our team is responsible for hosting the data infrastructure that serves as a backbone for processing various business critical money and loan movement workloads at Affirm across our batch and analytics ecosystems. Affirm is growing rapidly and so is the need for reliable and high availability frameworks. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery
- You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them
- You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
- You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

Tags: Infrastructure Platform Eng

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/affirm-senior-software-engineer-backend-lakehouse-infra/