Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Marketing & Privacy)

Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) builds trusted, privacy-aware consumer web experiences and measurement systems that enable sustainable growth. Within MPE, the Marketing pillar owns Affirm's Logged-Out Web experiences, web experimentation, client-side tagging, marketing technology integrations, attribution, and measurement. The Senior Software Engineer will build the data and measurement foundations connecting consumer acquisition activity across paid media, SEO/AEO, and other growth channels to downstream outcomes, working at the intersection of data engineering and marketing technology and partnering with Engineering, Product, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering. This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan. CAN base pay range: $153,000 - $213,000 CAD per year.

Responsibilities

Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems and ensuring everyone is supported throughout delivery; Support peers and stakeholders across the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design and analytics, participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that consider risks and trade-offs; Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them; Support the operations and availability of team artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting keep-the-lights-on and on-call efforts; Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond the team through writing and tech talks; Help develop talent on the team by providing feedback and guidance and leading by example; Build data and measurement foundations connecting consumer acquisition activity across paid media, SEO/AEO and other growth channels to outcomes such as signup, conversion and GMV

Requirements

4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin; Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes; Hands-on experience building marketing data and measurement systems using technologies such as Google Tag Manager (GTM/sGTM), GA4, advertising and conversion APIs, customer data platforms (CDPs), attribution or mobile measurement platforms, and consent management platforms; Experience building production data pipelines and analytical models using technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, including event-level data, identity resolution, attribution, or conversion measurement; Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design, and writing high quality code that is easily understood and used by others; Proficiency at making significant changes in a large code base, with a suite of tools and practices that enable safe changes; Takes ownership of growth, proactively seeking feedback from team, manager and stakeholders; Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering team; Residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan

Benefits

100% coverage of premiums for employees and dependents (medical, dental and vision); Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending; Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars; Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discount; Equity rewards as part of total compensation