Senior Backend Engineer - Auth & Fraud (Remote Canada)

Affirm; Kelowna; Remote; CAD 153,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity rewards

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a backend engineering lead to own and deliver high-availability systems that power our web and mobile experiences. You will collaborate across product, design and analytics and drive technical decisions to balance speed, reliability and security for our customers.

You will guide a team to build scalable backend services in Python or Kotlin, leveraging AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes, while improving code quality and team maturity in a global, remote-friendly setting.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience near web/mobile layers with frontend patterns like fraud prevention and backend-for-frontend.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with simple, extensible design.
• Proven ability to make large codebase changes safely and provide tooling to support the team.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics in ideation and decisioning.
• Proactively identify issues and lead efforts to solve them.
• Support operations and keep artifacts available, monitoring metrics and on-call work.
• Set and improve code review and design standards across the team.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems design

Backend development

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking a backend engineering lead to own and deliver high-availability systems that power our web and mobile experiences. You will collaborate across product, design and analytics and drive technical decisions to balance speed, reliability and security for our customers.

You will guide a team to build scalable backend services in Python or Kotlin, leveraging AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes, while improving code quality and team maturity in a global, remote-friendly setting.