Backend Engineer II — Checkout Platform (Remote)

Affirm; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 146,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

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 fast, reliable buying experience. You will implement APIs and microservices, optimize performance, and work with cross‑functional teams in a remote‑first environment.

Responsibilities include owning checkout components, collaborating across the organization, and shaping engineering standards. A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required.

Qualifications

• Ownership mindset with product and engineering leaders.
• Proven track record of shipping high‑quality software at scale.
• Strong written and verbal communication; over‑communication when needed.
• Experience collaborating across teams to grow the platform.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement forward‑looking approaches beyond the direct team.
• Own checkout components and improve health of surrounding systems.
• Collaborate with engineers to build the next generation checkout platform.
• Learn and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the checkout platform.

Skills

Ownership

Execution

Collaboration

Customer‑focused

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

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 fast, reliable buying experience. You will implement APIs and microservices, optimize performance, and work with cross‑functional teams in a remote‑first environment.

Responsibilities include owning checkout components, collaborating across the organization, and shaping engineering standards. A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required.