Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Search & Discovery

Affirm; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Health coverage for you and dependents

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Tech stipends and wellness benefits

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an experienced engineering leader to define and drive the technical agenda for a team building scalable backend systems, search and discovery experiences. The role emphasizes reliability, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration across product, design and analytics.

You will mentor engineers, own on-call operations, and help deliver major platform features while maintaining a customer-first mindset and growth trajectory.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
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Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long timescale and align with business goals.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and risk management.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions and processes.
• Own your team’s operations, monitoring, on-call readiness, runbooks and incident response.
• Foster a culture of quality with coding and design standards and cross-team advocacy.
• Develop talent by giving feedback, coaching and leading by example.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced engineering leader to define and drive the technical agenda for a team building scalable backend systems, search and discovery experiences. The role emphasizes reliability, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration across product, design and analytics.

You will mentor engineers, own on-call operations, and help deliver major platform features while maintaining a customer-first mindset and growth trajectory.