Senior Backend Engineer: Checkout Systems & Scale (Remote)

Affirm; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech setup stipend

Wellness stipend

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time through buy now, pay later solutions. It is a remote-first company with a culture focused on honesty, trust, and customer-centric innovation.

Design and implement forward-looking approaches for checkout systems and own components with long-term health. Collaborate with engineers to build the next generation of the checkout platform while taking ownership of technical decisions and shipping high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• Take ownership and drive technical decisions within your team.
• Execute with a proven track record of shipping high-quality software at scale.
• Communicate clearly and build teams through sharing learnings and feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement forward-looking approaches for checkout systems.
• Own components of checkout systems and define their long-term health.
• Collaborate with engineers to build the next generation of the checkout platform.

Skills

Ownership

Shipping at scale

Communication

Tools

Python

Kotlin

RPC

Redis

MySQL

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time through buy now, pay later solutions. It is a remote-first company with a culture focused on honesty, trust, and customer-centric innovation.

Design and implement forward-looking approaches for checkout systems and own components with long-term health. Collaborate with engineers to build the next generation of the checkout platform while taking ownership of technical decisions and shipping high-quality software at scale.