Senior Backend Engineer - Global Payments (Remote UK)

Affirm, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage at no cost

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affi is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own and drive quarterly goals for a distributed team building payments infrastructure for international markets.

You will lead engineers, collaborate with product management, design and analytics, and help manage delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability. This remote-first role offers growth, equity potential and a strong tech stipend.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems (AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes).
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivery of significant features.
• Own growth, seek feedback from team, manager and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication for global collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics in ideation and decision making.
• Identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology or business issues.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts; monitor metrics and on-call work.
• Set and promote code review and design standards across the team.
• Mentor and develop talent within the team.

Skills

Backend system design

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

Technical leadership

Code quality

Communication

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affi is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own and drive quarterly goals for a distributed team building payments infrastructure for international markets.

You will lead engineers, collaborate with product management, design and analytics, and help manage delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability. This remote-first role offers growth, equity potential and a strong tech stipend.