Backend Engineer, Data Streaming (Remote)

Affirm; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 165,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipend

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

affirm’s Streaming team builds data infrastructure with Kafka, Flink, and AWS to support event-driven architectures. As a software engineer, you will design, develop, and launch backend systems using Python or Kotlin, owning features end-to-end and collaborating with product, design and analytics.

You will work in a remote-first environment with flexible in-person onboarding in the US. The role emphasizes ownership, code quality, and growth within a global engineering team.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.

Responsibilities

• Break down projects into tasks and deliver in phases.
• Collaborate with product, design & analytics to balance constraints and risks.
• Maintain and monitor team artifacts; participate in on-call duties.
• Contribute to team growth through interview participation and peer feedback.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code quality

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Flink

Kubernetes

Job description

affirm’s Streaming team builds data infrastructure with Kafka, Flink, and AWS to support event-driven architectures. As a software engineer, you will design, develop, and launch backend systems using Python or Kotlin, owning features end-to-end and collaborating with product, design and analytics.

You will work in a remote-first environment with flexible in-person onboarding in the US. The role emphasizes ownership, code quality, and growth within a global engineering team.