Senior Backend Engineer, Identity Data (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data) to own backend systems on high-availability paths across our product surfaces.

The role emphasizes understanding business context, delivering reliable services, and collaborating across product, design, and analytics teams. You will drive quarterly goals for your team, mentor engineers, and contribute to the culture of quality with strong coding practices and on-call participation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems.
• Proficient in writing clean, maintainable code with thoughtful design.
• Ability to define a technical plan for significant features or components.
• Strong ownership, feedback-seeking and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own quarterly goals and lead engineers through ambiguity to delivery.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics in the lifecycle.
• Proactively identify and address technical and process issues.
• Maintain and monitor team artifacts, metrics, and on-call readiness.
• Raise code quality and design standards and advocate them beyond the team.
• Develop team talent through coaching and example.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data) to own backend systems on high-availability paths across our product surfaces.

The role emphasizes understanding business context, delivering reliable services, and collaborating across product, design, and analytics teams. You will drive quarterly goals for your team, mentor engineers, and contribute to the culture of quality with strong coding practices and on-call participation.