Senior Backend Engineer, Order Platform (Remote)

Affirm; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Generous time off

Tech stipends

Job summary

Affirm is reshaping credit to be honest and accessible. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Order Platform, you will own backend systems for orders, captures, refunds and settlement, driving reliability and scalability for merchants and consumers across the US.

You will mentor engineers and set technical direction with a senior, remote-first team. You will design high-availability services, collaborate with product and analytics, and help define API boundaries and fault-tolerant strategies in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with high availability, distributed services and API boundaries.
• Strong communication and collaboration across product, design and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate across product, design and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and risk management.
• Define and advocate technical solutions, monitoring, and on-call readiness.
• Mentor engineers and drive code quality and architecture decisions.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

System design

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is reshaping credit to be honest and accessible. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Order Platform, you will own backend systems for orders, captures, refunds and settlement, driving reliability and scalability for merchants and consumers across the US.

You will mentor engineers and set technical direction with a senior, remote-first team. You will design high-availability services, collaborate with product and analytics, and help define API boundaries and fault-tolerant strategies in a