Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Scale Payments Platform

Affirm, Inc.; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 173.000 - 233.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

100% subsidized medical coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Monthly tech stipends

Zusammenfassung

affirm’s Consumer Engineering team is hiring a backend engineer to own and deliver scalable services, collaborating with product, design, and analytics to move fast without compromising quality.

You’ll work in a remote-first environment across the U.S., with regional base pay ranges ($173k–$233k for Sapphire; $195k–$255k for Pacific) and a total package including equity, stipends, and comprehensive health coverage.

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Proven track record building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Defined a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with elegant, extensible design.
• Able to make large changes in a big codebase with safe tooling and practices.
• Demonstrated ownership of growth and proactively seeking feedback from team and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication to collaborate with a global engineering team.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Aufgaben

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team while guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics to ideate, define constraints and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify issues and lead in solving them.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts with metrics and on-call efforts.
• Help set and improve code review and design standards beyond the team.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Kenntnisse

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Code quality

Ownership

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

affirm’s Consumer Engineering team is hiring a backend engineer to own and deliver scalable services, collaborating with product, design, and analytics to move fast without compromising quality.

You’ll work in a remote-first environment across the U.S., with regional base pay ranges ($173k–$233k for Sapphire; $195k–$255k for Pacific) and a total package including equity, stipends, and comprehensive health coverage.