Senior Backend Engineer - ML Feature Platform (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Stipends for tech setup and wellness

Flexible time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking engineers for the ML Feature Platform team to design, develop, and operate backend systems at scale. You will work on data-driven features powering ML and decisioning, with a focus on reliability, latency, and service ownership.

You’ll engage with product, design, and analytics to shape technical plans, deliverable roadmaps, and robust solutions. A strong emphasis is placed on ownership, code quality, and collaboration across a global team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Ability to define a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base safely with tooling and practices.
• Strong communication skills supporting collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and guide engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics during ideation and decisions.
• Identify and lead resolution of project, process or technology issues.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts and on-call efforts.
• Promote quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards.
• Mentor teammates and lead by example in growing talent.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

MySQL

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking engineers for the ML Feature Platform team to design, develop, and operate backend systems at scale. You will work on data-driven features powering ML and decisioning, with a focus on reliability, latency, and service ownership.

You’ll engage with product, design, and analytics to shape technical plans, deliverable roadmaps, and robust solutions. A strong emphasis is placed on ownership, code quality, and collaboration across a global team.