Backend Engineer – Post-Transaction Systems (Remote)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 128,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is a remote-first company hiring a software engineer to help build post-transaction systems for the Affirm Card program. You will design, implement, test, and deploy backend services in collaboration with product, compliance and cross-functional partners.

You will own features end-to-end, contribute to scalable architectures, and participate in code reviews while working with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Backend design, development and deployment with Python or Kotlin.
• Familiar with distributed systems and cloud tooling.
• Proven ability to write clear, tested and extensible code.
• Strong collaboration and code-review skills.

Responsibilities

• Break down projects into tasks and deliver in phases.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics on requirements.
• Support operations and maintain system uptime with metrics.
• Participate in growth and interview processes to build the team.

Skills

Backend development

Python or Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Ownership & growth

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is a remote-first company hiring a software engineer to help build post-transaction systems for the Affirm Card program. You will design, implement, test, and deploy backend services in collaboration with product, compliance and cross-functional partners.

You will own features end-to-end, contribute to scalable architectures, and participate in code reviews while working with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes in a distributed environment.