Senior Backend Engineer - Money Movement Systems (Remote)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Technology stipend

Generous time off

Job summary

Affirm is rebuilding credit with a focus on honesty and accessibility. We are hiring a Software Engineer to help build money movement, bank data integration, and merchant data tooling as part of our Money Movement & Card Ledger team.

You will own backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, with a focus on reliability and extensibility in a remote-first environment across the USA.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with Python or Kotlin.
• Built or operated highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes.
• Ability to define technical plans for major features with simple, extensible designs.
• Proven track record of safe changes in large codebases and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design & analytics in ideation and decision-making.
• Proactively identify and solve project, process, technology or business issues.
• Support operations and on-call efforts to keep systems reliable.
• Set and promote code review and design standards across teams.
• Mentor teammates and lead by example to develop talent.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Python/Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Code quality

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is rebuilding credit with a focus on honesty and accessibility. We are hiring a Software Engineer to help build money movement, bank data integration, and merchant data tooling as part of our Money Movement & Card Ledger team.

You will own backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, with a focus on reliability and extensibility in a remote-first environment across the USA.