Software Engineer

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 11 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well! 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help our team build and scale our CasePeer software. CasePeer is our personal injury legal practice management software servicing thousands of legal professionals.  

Read More about CasePeer and Affinipay:

CasePeer: https://www.casepeer.com

Affinipay: https://www.affinipay.com

What You'll Do

• Support technical decisions, providing guidance and expertise in software architecture, design patterns, and best practices

• Design and implement scalable applications in a MVC (Django) environment while leveraging best practices and modern technologies like (e.g. Kubernetes)

• Collaborate with Product to proactively consider trade-offs, identify risks to timelines, consider where we can improve as a team in order to deliver business outcomes

• Mentor and coach other software engineers, fostering their professional growth and development

• 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

• Drive technology initiatives within the team and product to maintain application performance, scalability and sustainability

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, continuously learning and evolving your skills to drive innovation and excellence within the team

• Provide technical expertise to the broader engineering group to help drive positive results and outcomes

About You

• Experience with Containers (Docker), Kubernetes and Argo CD

• Experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCE)

• Expertise in full-stack web development with Django and React

• Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications at scale 

• Experience in writing front-end components using React

• This position is preferred to sit in Austin, Texas

Requirements

• 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 at scale

• Familiar with LEAN product development and Agile frameworks - Scrum or Kanban

• Experience building robust and resilient applications with event-based, microservices architecture

• Expert in Python and Django Framework (or equivalent)

• Strong understanding of SOLID design principles and design patterns

• Strong understanding with SQL, and familiarity with databases such as Postgres or MySql

• Strong teamwork and documentation skills

• This role is preferred to sit in Austin, Texas