Remote Marketplace Performance Engineering Lead

Xapply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech and wellness stipends

Flexible time off & holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

affirm is building its marketplace ads platform and seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Marketplace Performance) to lead backend excellence. You will guide long-term technical strategy, coordinate across product, design and analytics, and drive reliable, scalable systems to boost monetization and GMV.

You will champion code quality, oversee on-call rotations, and mentor engineers, while aligning with business objectives and collaborating with global partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• 2+ years in Ad Tech or related platforms.
• Ability to write clean, well-documented code and drive technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics to ensure sustainability and manage risks.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining technical solutions and processes.
• Own team operations, monitoring, runbooks, and on-call readiness.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Backend Development

Distributed Systems

Technical Strategy

Code Review

Ad Tech

React

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Job description

affirm is building its marketplace ads platform and seeking a Manager, Software Engineering (Marketplace Performance) to lead backend excellence. You will guide long-term technical strategy, coordinate across product, design and analytics, and drive reliable, scalable systems to boost monetization and GMV.

You will champion code quality, oversee on-call rotations, and mentor engineers, while aligning with business objectives and collaborating with global partners.