Senior Software Engineer

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, you'll have the opportunity to push our product in new directions while also shaping the next iterations of the features our customers already love. You'll define the future of core pieces of our backend across areas like our data model, or authentication, or integrations, as well as core pieces of our frontend like design systems, or rich visualizations. From front-end usability to back-end algorithms, async workers to scalable applications, you'll hone your skills across multiple domains while helping to drive forward the Affinity product and vision.

In this role, you will:

• Own product areas that are critical to the success of our customers and our business
• 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 core pieces of technology across the full application stack

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.

Required

• You take pride in delivering high-quality and powerful products to customers while also championing technical excellence
• 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 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, to integrate systems, or to harden your product’s security posture
• 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, and with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.

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 $118,000 - $187,800 CAD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.