Remote Backend Engineer - Data Streaming & Infra

Affirm; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Health benefits

Parental leave 18 weeks

Away days

Learning & Development

Job summary

Affirm's Streaming team owns data infrastructure, event-driven architecture, and stream processing to drive discovery and validation.

As a software engineer with 1.5+ years, you will design, develop and launch backend systems using Python or Kotlin, work with AWS, Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes, and collaborate across product, design and analytics.

This remote-first role offers generous benefits and opportunities to grow within a fast-moving data-centric environment.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and launching backend systems.
• Proficiency in Python or Kotlin.
• Familiar with AWS, Kafka, Flink and Kubernetes.
• Ability to work with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Identify and execute new data infrastructure use cases.
• Design and scale data infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics.
• Support operations and on-call efforts.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Affirm's Streaming team owns data infrastructure, event-driven architecture, and stream processing to drive discovery and validation.

As a software engineer with 1.5+ years, you will design, develop and launch backend systems using Python or Kotlin, work with AWS, Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes, and collaborate across product, design and analytics.

This remote-first role offers generous benefits and opportunities to grow within a fast-moving data-centric environment.