Backend Engineer II - Checkout Platform (Remote-First)

Affirm, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health coverage

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Inclusive interview process

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design checkout APIs and microservices, enabling a fast, reliable, and transparent buy-now-pay-later experience for customers.

You will work in a remote-first environment from anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, collaborating with product and engineering leaders to deliver scalable financial services, and improving performance and reliability across the checkout platform.

Qualifications

• Own software features from design to production.
• Ship high-quality, scalable backend systems.
• Collaborate across product and engineering teams.
• Strong communication and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement insightful API and microservices for checkout.
• Own components of checkout systems and improve health of surrounding systems.
• Collaborate with engineers across the organization to build the next-gen checkout platform.
• Learn and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Tools

Python

Kotlin

RPC

Redis

MySQL

AWS

Github

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design checkout APIs and microservices, enabling a fast, reliable, and transparent buy-now-pay-later experience for customers.

You will work in a remote-first environment from anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, collaborating with product and engineering leaders to deliver scalable financial services, and improving performance and reliability across the checkout platform.