Remote Senior Manager – Ledger Systems & FinTech Backend

Affirm, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first compensation structure

Spending Wallets: tech, food, family

Health Benefits

Parental Leave

Away Days

Learning & Development

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend leader to design, develop, and launch scalable systems at scale using Python or Kotlin. You will set technical strategy for your team and collaborate across product, design, and analytics to ensure reliability and business impact.

This remote-first role emphasizes collaboration with finance and product teams, and offers flexible compensation aligned with a remote workforce, health benefits, parental leave, and ongoing learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team
• Experience developing highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or related domains demanding data accuracy and reliability

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale
• Collaborate across product management, design and analytics to ensure sustainability and risk management
• Advocate for technical solutions and operational processes to improve reliability and on-call readiness
• Own the team’s operations and availability with monitoring, playbooks, tests and alerting
• Mentor and develop talent through feedback and leadership by example

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Backend systems

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an experienced backend leader to design, develop, and launch scalable systems at scale using Python or Kotlin. You will set technical strategy for your team and collaborate across product, design, and analytics to ensure reliability and business impact.

This remote-first role emphasizes collaboration with finance and product teams, and offers flexible compensation aligned with a remote workforce, health benefits, parental leave, and ongoing learning opportunities.