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.
Reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager, as a Software Engineer II , 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, 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.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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 below, 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 3+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer, including familiarity with the different pieces of technology involved in building modern web applications
- Experience applying AI tools and best practices to enhance efficiency, code quality and delivery of business objectives.
- You have experience writing server-side code leveraging modern OOP practices, ideally using Ruby and PostgreSQL
- You have experience building interfaces with React and modern component-based interfaces
- You have a strong understanding of relational databases and the ability to design and implement systems that scale and avoid performance bottlenecks
- 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.
How we work:
Our culture is a key part of how we operate as well as our h