Staff Software Engineer, Affinity

CA$160-250k

React
AWS
Kubernetes
TypeScript
Kafka
Ruby
Expert level
Remote in Canada
Affinity

Relationship intelligence company

Open for applications

Affinity

Relationship intelligence company

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaSData AnalysisSales

Open for applications

CA$160-250k

React
AWS
Kubernetes
TypeScript
Kafka
Ruby
Expert level
Remote in Canada

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaSData AnalysisSales

Company mission

Affinity's mission is to create a world where anyone can cultivate and fully harness their network to succeed, by building a new kind of infrastructure to power all relationship-driven industries and applications.

Role

Who you are

  • You have ~10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years of experience leading teams that deliver end-to-end systems
  • You’re comfortable troubleshooting across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage, and distributed services layers
  • You’re an expert in one or more OOP languages and modern OOD, with some experience using Ruby
  • You know how to diagnose and improve performance issues systematically
  • You can effectively contribute to technical strategy and roadmaps on product-oriented teams
  • You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time
  • You demonstrate strong ownership instincts and sweat the details
  • You have strong convictions, weakly held, and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results
  • You’re excited to work on a cross-functional team, partnering with product stakeholders, other teams, and subject matter experts

Desirable

  • A combination of startup and brand-name SaaS companies experience
  • Experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka
  • Experience with React and Typescript

What the job involves

  • As a Staff Software Engineer on the CRM Team, you’ll have the opportunity to evolve the implementation of the spreadsheet-like interfaces that are core to how our users manage and view their data in the application
  • This is a particularly complex domain because the data modeling needs to be extremely flexible to support unique use cases
  • You’ll also guide the future of the new automations offering, which enables configuring workflows to manipulate data using if-this-then-that rules
  • Additionally, this team owns:
  • Relationship Intelligence, including the calculation and surfacing of relationship strengths between people based on ingested datasets
  • The embedded Analytics platform that provides customizable data visualizations
  • Search, notifications, and reminders functionality
  • Become the deep expert in the above product areas, lead the technical design of critical initiatives, and be an active code contributor during execution phases
  • Ensure our software is architecturally consistent and delivers a snappy user experience
  • Collaborate across team boundaries to align on and coordinate change, as this team manages data models that have touchpoints upstream and downstream
  • Research and propose new technologies or architectures that drive the team’s critical systems while considering the larger implications
  • Mentor other engineers to uplevel them individually and the team as a whole
  • Promote operational excellence with focus on high reliability, performance, and scalability
  • Work at all levels of the stack, with a preference for backend development

Our take

Up to 90% of company profiles in traditional customer relationship management systems (CRMs) are incomplete or out-of-date, causing missed sales opportunities and wasted time. Affinity exists to change this state of affairs, using AI to analyse a company's communications and interactions to provide the most accurate profile possible, powering sales and excellent customer relationships.

While other modern CRMs exist, few of them are able to automate data input on the scale of Affinity, which has processed around 20 trillion emails and hundreds of thousands of calendar events to date. It also focuses on industries that are underserved in the CRM sector, including investment banking and real estate. This has grown it a client base of more than 1,800 customers including major enterprises such as Bain Capital Ventures, Nike and Twilio.

Affinity is focusing on expanding its sales, marketing, and engineering teams to grow its customer base and develop new products. As companies look to both improve the performance of their sales teams and reduce costs in manual data entry, Affinity's product is likely to remain extremely popular.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

93% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Sep 2021

$80m

SERIES C

Feb 2019

$26.5m

SERIES B

Total funding: $122.6m

Company benefits

  • Daily lunches
  • Commuter passes
  • Flexible PTO
  • Free events
  • Tech pack
  • Retirement options
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Grocery allowance

Company values

  • We are playmakers - We are team players who empower our teammates to do their best work and are not afraid to step outside the scope of our roles
  • We are obsessed with learning - We are dedicated learners and teachers and are always seeking new avenues to improve ourselves and to achieve our goals
  • We care personally - We recognize that our teammates are people who have strengths, weaknesses, dreams and life stories
  • We take pride in what we do - For all of us here at Affinity, our work is not just a means to an end: we derive tremendous fulfillment from doing our best
  • We are radically open-minded - We value ideas over titles. We believe that the best ideas can come from anywhere, both within and outside our company

Company HQ

Jackson Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ray Zhou

(Co-CEO)

Studied Computer Science at Stanford and was a Genomics Researcher at UC Davis.

Shubham Goel

(Co-CEO)

Started out as a Software Developer at inoXapps and was a Partner at the Dorm Room Fund. Is one of Forbes's 30 Under 30.

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