Senior Backend Engineer – Remote, Equity Eligible

Affirm, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own and deliver core backend systems at scale in a remote-first USA setup. You will partner with product, design, and analytics to shape features from ideation through delivery, focusing on reliability and extensibility.

A strong track record with Python or Kotlin and distributed systems is essential. In this role you will drive architectural decisions, contribute high-quality code, and mentor teammates.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Defined a technical plan for delivering a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Written high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others and able to make large changes safely.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics by ideation, articulating constraints, and making trade-off decisions.
• Identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, and supporting on-call efforts.
• Set or improve code review and design standards, and advocate for them beyond your team.
• Develop talent by providing feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend systems

Python

Kotlin

Communication

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own and deliver core backend systems at scale in a remote-first USA setup. You will partner with product, design, and analytics to shape features from ideation through delivery, focusing on reliability and extensibility.

A strong track record with Python or Kotlin and distributed systems is essential. In this role you will drive architectural decisions, contribute high-quality code, and mentor teammates.