Senior Backend Engineer - Money Movement (Remote)

Affirm; Boulder (CO); Remote; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

ESPP

Time off

Stipends

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Software Engineer for the Money Movement & Card Ledger team to build tools and systems for money movement, bank data integration, and merchant data. The role supports the Affirm Card product, combining debit functionality with BNPL financing.

You will partner with product, data science, and multiple engineering teams to create scalable, correct, and extensible solutions. We value strong cross-functional communication and a bias for delivering high-quality code.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining 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 take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics to ideate, articulate constraints, and balance risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues and lead in solving them.
• Support operations and availability by creating metrics, escalating issues, and assisting on-call efforts.
• Help elevate code review and design standards across the team and beyond.
• Mentor teammates by providing feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python/Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Code quality

Ownership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking a Software Engineer for the Money Movement & Card Ledger team to build tools and systems for money movement, bank data integration, and merchant data. The role supports the Affirm Card product, combining debit functionality with BNPL financing.

You will partner with product, data science, and multiple engineering teams to create scalable, correct, and extensible solutions. We value strong cross-functional communication and a bias for delivering high-quality code.