Senior Backend Engineer - Identity & Scale

HireHi; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Health stipends

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness days off

Learning and development programs

Equity rewards

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a senior backend leader to guide the Identity team’s technical strategy and scale critical systems for international expansion from Spain. You will drive architecture decisions, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and own on-call readiness.

You will work with Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes to deliver reliable, scalable backend solutions while mentoring engineers across a global team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend design, development, and launch at scale.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python or Kotlin.
• Strong communication with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Set the team’s technical strategy on a year-long time scale and connect it to critical, business-impacting projects
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs
• Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that multiply the team’s impact
• Own team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support on-call efforts
• Set code review and design standards, and advocate for them across teams through writing and tech talks
• Develop team members through feedback, guidance, and leading by example
• Participate in the required on-call rotation

Skills

Python/Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Code quality

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking a senior backend leader to guide the Identity team’s technical strategy and scale critical systems for international expansion from Spain. You will drive architecture decisions, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and own on-call readiness.

You will work with Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes to deliver reliable, scalable backend solutions while mentoring engineers across a global team.