Affinity Hiring for Senior Back End Engineer – APIs & Integrations at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Reporting to our Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to push our product and platform in new directions while also shaping the next iterations of the features our customers already love. You’ll help to drive the technical roadmap and implementation for the future of our API, Integrations and Analytics layers which power the foundational pieces of our product like our 3rd party ecosystem and business intelligence. From high-performing APIs to backend algorithms, integration frameworks, to data analytics pipelines, you’ll hone your skills across multiple domains while helping to drive forward the Affinity product and vision.

What you’ll be doing:
Own product areas that are essential to the success of our customers and our business.

Drive the technical best practices for our APIs, Integrations and Analytics layers that allow our platform to exceed its performance goals and help to increase engineering velocity.

Collaborate with world-class engineering, product, and design teams-you’ll have the opportunity to learn from a wide variety of experiences and, of course, to share your own.

Grow your expertise and fluency with the core pieces of technology that serve as the foundation for the Affinity product.

Qualifications

Required:
You take pride in delivering high-quality and robust products to customers while also advocating technical excellence.

You have 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, including familiarity with the different pieces of technology involved in building modern web applications.

You’ve worked with a variety of web APIs and developed backend services using modern OOP practices.

You have a strong understanding of relational or NoSQL databases and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks.

You’ve helped your teams solve high-scale challenges, integrate systems, or develop business intelligence platforms.

You’re excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams.

You’re eager to contribute your ideas and experiences to help Affinity continuously improve as a product and as a company.

Tech stack

Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes. To learn more about our tech, check out our Building Affinity blog.

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.

About Affinity

We are passionate about helping dealmakers in the world’s biggest relationship-driven industries to find, manage, and close the most important deals. Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the data exhaust of trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers with their networks to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We have raised over $120M and are backed by some of Silicon Valley’s best firms. With over 1700 customers in 70 countries on our platform, a 4.8 Star Glassdoor rating and being ranked in the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies, we need more great people to help us scale even more.

The more diverse our team is, the more we’ll be able to learn from each other, and the better our company and our product will be. Whatever your gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, veteran status, favorite Spotify playlist, or social, cultural, and economic background, we can’t wait to welcome you to Affinity!