Remote Backend Engineer — Build Scale & Impact (Equity)

Affirm, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 153,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Stipends for tech & health/wellness

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer) to join our Consumer Engineering team. This remote Canada role focuses on owning and delivering backend features at scale, collaborating with product, design and analytics, and driving quality and reliability across services.

Expect opportunities to grow and contribute to high-impact, customer-facing systems. The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and strong communication within a globally distributed engineering team,

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining technical plans for significant features with simple, extensible design.
• Strong ownership and ability to drive changes safely across large code bases.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics in ideation and decision-making.
• Identify and lead resolution of project, process, tech or business issues.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts with metrics and on-call duties.
• Set or improve code review and design standards and promote them beyond your team.
• Mentor and develop teammates by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code quality

Ownership

Communication

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer) to join our Consumer Engineering team. This remote Canada role focuses on owning and delivering backend features at scale, collaborating with product, design and analytics, and driving quality and reliability across services.

Expect opportunities to grow and contribute to high-impact, customer-facing systems. The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and strong communication within a globally distributed engineering team,