Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Hi, We’re AffiniPay! 

AffiniPay is a leading fintech company, based out of Austin, Texas. As the market leader in professional services payments and practice management software, AffiniPay’s tech products serve legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms. AffiniPay has been recognized as one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well! 

We are looking for a Backend Staff Software Engineer to join our practice management team to innovate and help our engineering teams build and refine large-scale, service-oriented SaaS applications serving thousands of customers. If you are someone who is passionate about solving complex, but important problems and want to make a large impact on our customers, both internally and externally, this is the role for you. You will join a strong, experienced engineering team whose responsibilities include prototyping potential solutions, performing deep-dives into technologies, and ultimately making well-informed technological and architectural decisions that will shape the future of our platform.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide guidance and expertise in software architecture, design patterns, and best practices to engineers across all engineering teams.
• Design and implement scalable applications in microservice architecture using best practices.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and Product to proactively consider trade-offs and identify risks to timelines.
• Create prototypes and investigate technological solutions to inform foundational and architectural decisions.
• Support software deployments, including debugging, troubleshooting, and coordination with DevOps and QA Engineers
• Collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements, communicate technical solutions, and ensure alignment with business objectives
• Lead and coordinate meetings to establish effective communication and coordination within and between teams
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, continuously learning and evolving your skills to drive innovation and excellence within the organization
  
  
  

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working with AWS or other cloud-based technologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
• Expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Javascript and Typescript
• Expertise in Node.js and frameworks like Nest.JS
• Expertise in Terraform and IAC 

About You:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, monitoring, and debugging large-scale solutions in cloud-based environments
• Experience building and deploying production-grade web applications …