Remote Backend Engineer - Checkout Platform

Affirm; United States; Remote; USD 146,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% covered health insurance

Tech stipend for setup

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affir is building a world-class Checkout Platform and seeks a Backend Software Engineer to design and implement APIs and microservices for transactions. You will own checkout components and drive health and performance improvements across the system.

You will collaborate with engineers across the organization, learn or improve standards, tooling, and processes to deliver a reliable, customer-centric buying experience. This role offers remote-first flexibility within the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping backend software at scale.
• Ability to own components and drive technical decisions.
• Strong communication, written and verbal, with product and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own checkout system components and improve health of related systems.
• Design and implement APIs and microservice interfaces for transactions.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to evolve the checkout platform.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Skills

Ownership

Delivery

Collaboration

Team growth

Customer-centric

Tools

Python

Kotlin

RPC

Redis

MySQL

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Affir is building a world-class Checkout Platform and seeks a Backend Software Engineer to design and implement APIs and microservices for transactions. You will own checkout components and drive health and performance improvements across the system.

You will collaborate with engineers across the organization, learn or improve standards, tooling, and processes to deliver a reliable, customer-centric buying experience. This role offers remote-first flexibility within the United States.