Senior Backend Engineer, Identity & Scale

Affirm; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Spending stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a senior backend leader for the Identity team to set technical strategy and ensure reliability at scale in a remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with product, design and analytics to align architecture with business goals, champion quality, and mentor engineers through hands-on guidance and code reviews.

The role focuses on Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, with 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend design and delivery experience.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the technical strategy for the Identity backend.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to align architecture with business goals.
• Lead code reviews, establish design standards, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Backend design

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Affirm is seeking a senior backend leader for the Identity team to set technical strategy and ensure reliability at scale in a remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with product, design and analytics to align architecture with business goals, champion quality, and mentor engineers through hands-on guidance and code reviews.

The role focuses on Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, with 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field.