Staff Platform Engineer

at  Affinityco

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 Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to help build the systems that allow our teams to move faster and focus on building features our customers love. You will be leading and managing a medium and growing Platform Engineering team, and you’ll define the future of core pieces of our entire stack across areas like library design, authentication, observability, standards and tooling. From making front end iteration faster to building services and tools to make developing APIs easier and more reliable to making self-service infrastructure available to teams, you’ll hone your skills across multiple domains while helping to drive forward the Affinity product and vision.

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 take pride in delivering high-quality and powerful products to customers while also championing technical excellence
• You have 8+ years of experience working in backend software engineering, with at least 3+ years of acting as a senior team lead or staff engineer, leading complex, engineering projects across teams
• You have 1+ years of people management experience, and you enjoy mentoring, coaching and supporting career growth and development
• You have experience leading high performing teams, mentoring more junior engineers, and uplifting everyone around you
• You possess a deep understanding of Kubernetes and its ecosystem
• You have experience building APIs that are easy to use, intuitive, self documenting and easy to maintain
• You have experience building tools to improve developer productivity at all parts of the stack. You understand ways to make development experience better and application maintenance easier, and excel in working closely with key product and delivery stakeholders to design solutions or migrate to new standards
• You possess strong expertise in modern OOD and OOP principles and practices
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure and how modern applications are deployed to cloud providers using technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kustomize and helm
• You understand the testing pyramid and have extensive experience writing functional, unit, integration and infrastructure tests, utilizing and promoting industry best practices for testing.
• You’ve helped your teams to solve high-scale challenges, to integrate systems, or to harden your product’s security posture
• You’ve applied DORA/SPACE metrics and know to measure and improve developer experience
• You’re excited to work collaboratively within engineering and as part of a cross functional team

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Through cross-team collaboration with engineering, product and design, define, manage and communicate platform engineering’s roadmap to prioritize the most impactful improvements to our systems
• Own the development experience and productivity of our engineering organization
• Manage, grow, and develop the Platform Engineering Team
• Drive technology improvements, scalability, and robustness of our platform via close partnership across engineering organization
• Design and build efficient and performant cloud architectures that act as the backbone of our applications
• Create common components and libraries spanning all levels of our technology stack that help teams work faster and produce faster, more reliable and more correct solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation to address production issues

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 take pride in delivering high-quality and powerful products to customers while also championing technical excellence
• You have 8+ years of experience working in backend software engineering, with at least 3+ years of acting as a senior team lead or staff engineer, leading complex, engineering projects across teams
• You have 1+ years of people management experience, and you enjoy mentoring, coaching and supporting career growth and development
• You have experience leading high performing teams, mentoring more junior engineers, and uplifting everyone around you
• You possess a deep understanding of Kubernetes and its ecosystem
• You have experience building APIs that are easy to use, intuitive, self documenting and easy to maintain
• You have experience building tools to improve developer productivity at all parts of the stack. You understand ways to make development experience better and application maintenance easier, and excel in working closely with key product and delivery stakeholders to design solutions or migrate to new standards
• You possess strong expertise in modern OOD and OOP principles and practices
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure and how modern applications are deployed to cloud providers using technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kustomize and helm
• You understand the testing pyramid and have extensive experience writing functional, unit, integration and infrastructure tests, utilizing and promoting industry best practices for testing.
• You’ve helped your teams to solve high-scale challenges, to integrate systems, or to harden your product’s security posture
• You’ve applied DORA/SPACE metrics and know to measure and improve developer experience
• You’re excited to work collaboratively within engineering and as part of a cross functional tea