Engineering Lead: Platform Strategy & Reliability

Affirm; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first pay

Spending wallets

Employee groups

Remote work

Generous PTO

Health benefits

Mental health programs

Parental leave 18 weeks

Away days

Learning programs

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a senior backend leader to set technical strategy for a distributed team, building at scale with Python or Kotlin on AWS. You will own the execution plan and connect engineering work to measurable business impact.

You will collaborate across product, design and analytics, define standards, and improve on-call, monitoring and release processes. This remote-first role invites national talent to lead and grow with the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality with a defined technical plan.
• Writes high quality code that is easily understood.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
• Own your team's operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support keep the lights on and on-call efforts
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Git

Terraform

Job description

Affirm is seeking a senior backend leader to set technical strategy for a distributed team, building at scale with Python or Kotlin on AWS. You will own the execution plan and connect engineering work to measurable business impact.

You will collaborate across product, design and analytics, define standards, and improve on-call, monitoring and release processes. This remote-first role invites national talent to lead and grow with the team.