Lead Backend Engineering Manager, Ledger Platform

Affirm, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health coverage

Tech setup stipends

Generous time off & holidays

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affi is a remote-first company looking for an experienced engineering leader to define the technical strategy for a year-long horizon and align critical projects with business goals.

You will lead a high-performance team, drive reliability and scalability across AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, and mentor engineers while partnering with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and risk management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• 2+ years of experience managing a software team.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and collaboration with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and align it with business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across product management, design and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are understood.
• Advocate for technical solutions and operational processes as a force-multiplier for the team.
• Own team operations and availability with monitoring, on-call playbooks, and incident response.
• Set code review and design standards and promote them beyond your team to improve quality.

Skills

Backend systems

Python

Kotlin

Team management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affi is a remote-first company looking for an experienced engineering leader to define the technical strategy for a year-long horizon and align critical projects with business goals.

You will lead a high-performance team, drive reliability and scalability across AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, and mentor engineers while partnering with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and risk management.