Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Search and Discovery

Affirm; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Wellness stipend

Tech stipend

Job summary

Affirm is a remote-first company building a best-in-class advertising platform and a premier shopping destination. We are seeking a senior backend engineering leader to set the technical strategy, own team operations, and mentor engineers across domains.

You will drive architecture for large-scale systems, collaborate with product, design and analytics, and advocate quality and reliability. This role emphasizes leadership, writing clean code, and delivering high-impact features in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale with Python or Kotlin.
• Proven experience building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering consumer experiences using React and 2+ years in search/recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics to ensure sustainability and manage risks.
• Define and advocate technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own team operations and availability with monitoring, on-call rotations, playbooks, testing and incident response.
• Set code review and design standards and propagate them beyond the team.
• Develop talent by mentoring and guiding team members.

Skills

Python/Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Search engines

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Affirm is a remote-first company building a best-in-class advertising platform and a premier shopping destination. We are seeking a senior backend engineering leader to set the technical strategy, own team operations, and mentor engineers across domains.

You will drive architecture for large-scale systems, collaborate with product, design and analytics, and advocate quality and reliability. This role emphasizes leadership, writing clean code, and delivering high-impact features in a fast-paced