Remote-First Senior Staff Backend Engineer (Ledger)

Affirm; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

ESPP

Remote-first

Job summary

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, with a ledger engineering team enabling audit-grade financial product innovation. This senior role focuses on setting technical strategy for backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, and leading cross-functional delivery across product management, design, and analytics.

You will drive reliability, code quality, and architecture decisions in a remote-first environment, with equity and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long horizon and align it with business goals.
• Collaborate across product management, design, and analytics to ensure sustainability, risk control, and trade-offs are understood.
• Own operations and availability with monitoring, on-call processes, runbooks, and escalation policies.
• Promote code quality and architecture standards across teams through writing and tech talks.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, with a ledger engineering team enabling audit-grade financial product innovation. This senior role focuses on setting technical strategy for backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, and leading cross-functional delivery across product management, design, and analytics.

You will drive reliability, code quality, and architecture decisions in a remote-first environment, with equity and competitive benefits.