13 Oct
Affinity.co
Toronto
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 II, you’ll have the opportunity to drive our product forward, refining and evolving the features our customers love while pushing new directions. You’ll shape key frontend components, including design systems, state management patterns, and overall architecture. Affinity’s user experiences are data-dense and highly interactive, offering a challenging and rewarding role with significant impact.
In this role, you will:
- Work with a cross-functional group leading the frontend engineering projects from design to delivery, ensuring successful execution and outcomes.
- Scope and stage work into well-defined milestones, avoiding monolithic deliverables and ensuring timely progress.
- Identify and proactively address technical debt, maintaining the long-term health and performance of systems.
- Mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and improving team practices.
- Drive operational excellence, influencing decisions that enhance the scalability and maintainability of our frontend systems.
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.
- You have ~7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on frontend development, and at least 2+ years in a senior role leading team projects.
- You are an expert in React and TypeScript.
- You have experience with performance optimization techniques and tools to ensure fast load times and smooth interactions.
- You have expertise with frontend build tools and package managers (Eg. webpack, pnpm)
- You demonstrate strong ownership instincts, guiding the design, planning, and execution of large, complex projects.
- You have strong leadership abilities and experience mentoring other engineers and providing technical guidance.
Nice to have:
- You have a combination of startup and brand-name SaaS companies experience.
- You have experience writing server-side code leveraging modern OOP practices using Ruby, Rails and PostgreSQL.
Tech stack:
Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. We’re leaning into event-driven architecture using Kafka. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes.
About Affinity
With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms, Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and close more deals. How? Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the wealth of data exhaust from trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants,
and other strategic dealmakers to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We are are proud to have received Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards as well as to be Great Places to Work certified for the last 5 years running. Join us on our mission to make it possible for anyone to cultivate and fully harness their network to succeed.
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▶️ Senior Software Engineer II, Frontend
🖊️ Affinity.co
📍 Toronto