Marketplace Performance Engineering Lead (Remote)

Affirm; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is hiring for a senior backend engineering role focused on building scalable, reliable systems for our ads platform. You will own technical strategy, influence cross-functional partners, and drive operational excellence across on-call readiness and design standards. The role requires 8+ years in backend design and 2+ years in Ad Tech, with expertise in Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, plus React for consumer-facing features.

Denver-based? Remote-first across the U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Extensive track record building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering consumer experiences using UI frameworks like React.
• 2+ years of experience in Ad Tech or related platforms.
• Deliver major features and system components through a clear technical plan.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, from low-level code to large-system architecture.
• Growth trajectory demonstrating feedback gathering from peers and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication for global teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Set long-range technical strategy for your team and align with business priorities.
• Collaborate across product management, design and analytics to ensure sustainability and risk awareness.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining practical technical solutions and processes.
• Own team operations, monitoring, on-call readiness and playbooks to keep systems running.
• Set and advocate coding and design standards across teams.
• Mentor teammates and lead by example to develop talent.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Code quality

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Job description

Affirm is hiring for a senior backend engineering role focused on building scalable, reliable systems for our ads platform. You will own technical strategy, influence cross-functional partners, and drive operational excellence across on-call readiness and design standards. The role requires 8+ years in backend design and 2+ years in Ad Tech, with expertise in Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, plus React for consumer-facing features.

Denver-based? Remote-first across the U.S.