Backend Engineer - Checkout Platform (Remote)

Affirm; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 146,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipend and wellness/tech

Time off and generous holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affim is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our Checkout Platform, delivering a world‑class buying experience. You will design APIs, microservice interfaces and improved performance to support every user transaction with Affim.

You will join a fast‑paced team focused on reliability, scale and a customer‑centric approach. This remote‑first role offers flexibility with occasional in‑person onboarding and office work where needed.

Qualifications

• Ownership and drive technical decisions with product and engineering leaders.
• Proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high‑quality software at scale.
• Strong communication, verbal and written.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to grow with engineers."
• Customer‑centric mentality focused on user experience.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement insightful forward‑looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open‑ended problems.
• Own components of checkout systems and define their long‑term health, while improving surrounding systems.
• Collaborate with engineers within our team and across the organization to build the next generation of the checkout platform.
• Learn and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the checkout platform.

Skills

Ownership

Communication

Collaboration

Customer-centric

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Python

Kotlin

RPC

Redis

MySQL

AWS

Github

Job description

Affim is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build the next generation of our Checkout Platform, delivering a world‑class buying experience. You will design APIs, microservice interfaces and improved performance to support every user transaction with Affim.

You will join a fast‑paced team focused on reliability, scale and a customer‑centric approach. This remote‑first role offers flexibility with occasional in‑person onboarding and office work where needed.