Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, AI-Driven Reliability

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build a next-generation reliability platform for its production systems. You will blend traditional distributed systems engineering with AI-assisted development to give teams a single place to understand, debug, and improve the health of their services.

This is a highly creative, hands-on role focusing on reliability, quality, and maintainability while shipping rapidly with strong intuition.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
• Proficient with technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes.
• Experience shipping web apps with React or Vue.
• Practical use of LLMs or AI frameworks to enhance automation with guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics across the lifecycle.
• Proactively identify issues and lead in solving them.
• Support operations and on-call efforts to keep services healthy.

Skills

Backend systems

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

React

Vue

LLMs

AI frameworks

Technical planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

Job description

Affirm is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build a next-generation reliability platform for its production systems. You will blend traditional distributed systems engineering with AI-assisted development to give teams a single place to understand, debug, and improve the health of their services.

This is a highly creative, hands-on role focusing on reliability, quality, and maintainability while shipping rapidly with strong intuition.