Remote Engineering Manager - Ledger & Backend Systems

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Tech setup stipends

Flexible time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affi­rm is a remote‑first company delivering a transparent, conflict‑free pay over time platform. We seek a senior engineer leader to define technical strategy and guide a distributed team responsible for highly available backend systems.

You’ll work with product, design, and analytics to ensure scalable, auditable financial software and strong operational discipline. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and promote reliability and performance across our engineering organization, while

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• 2+ years of software team management or leadership experience.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Strong communication across global teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year‑long horizon.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics across the development lifecycle.
• Define and advocate technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own team operations, monitoring, playbooks and on‑call readiness.
• Set code review and design standards and evangelize them broadly.
• Mentor teammates and lead by example to grow talent.

Skills

Backend systems

Python / Kotlin

Team management

Distributed systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affi­rm is a remote‑first company delivering a transparent, conflict‑free pay over time platform. We seek a senior engineer leader to define technical strategy and guide a distributed team responsible for highly available backend systems.

You’ll work with product, design, and analytics to ensure scalable, auditable financial software and strong operational discipline. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and promote reliability and performance across our engineering organization, while