Backend Engineer II - Remote, Scalable Checkout

Affirm, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 67,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Equity opportunities

Learning & development

Mental well-being support

Financial planning tools

ERGs

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer for the Card Checkout team. You will design and implement backend features enabling a seamless, transparent checkout experience.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with product and design, and contributing to reliable, scalable systems. The position requires 2+ years of software engineering experience, with proficiency in Python or Kotlin and familiarity with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems.
• Proficient in Python or Kotlin and familiar with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Break down projects into tasks and deliver in phases.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics in development lifecycle.
• Support operations, metrics and on-call efforts.
• Contribute to team's growth and interview processes.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Code reviews

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer for the Card Checkout team. You will design and implement backend features enabling a seamless, transparent checkout experience.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with product and design, and contributing to reliable, scalable systems. The position requires 2+ years of software engineering experience, with proficiency in Python or Kotlin and familiarity with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.