Backend Systems Engineer – Money Movement (Remote)

Affirm; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affim is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Money Movement & Card Ledger team. You’ll build tools and systems for money movement, bank data integration, and merchant data, partnering with product, analytics and multiple engineering teams. The role emphasizes correctness, scalability, and extensibility.

You will own quarterly goals, drive cross-functional collaboration, and champion code quality while growing as a leader within a remote-friendly, fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivery of a major feature.
• Strong ability to modify large codebases safely.
• Proactive growth mindset and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Collaborate with product, design & analytics across the lifecycle.
• Identify and drive resolution of project/process/tech issues.
• Monitor metrics and support keep the lights on and on-call work.
• Set and improve code review and design standards across teams.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

MySQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affim is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Money Movement & Card Ledger team. You’ll build tools and systems for money movement, bank data integration, and merchant data, partnering with product, analytics and multiple engineering teams. The role emphasizes correctness, scalability, and extensibility.

You will own quarterly goals, drive cross-functional collaboration, and champion code quality while growing as a leader within a remote-friendly, fast-growing environment.