Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable APIs & Checkout

Affirm; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm is a remote-first company redefining credit with a focus on transparency. The engineering teams build scalable backend systems that power Affirm’s mission and enable reliable checkout experiences for merchants and customers.

The role emphasizes ownership of quarterly goals, collaboration across product, design, and analytics, and proactive problem solving. A strong emphasis on quality, mentorship, and architecture integrity is shown throughout the ad.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems.
• Experience defining a technical plan for delivering big features with simple, extensible design.
• Ability to write high quality code that others can use and modify.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics in the lifecycle and trade-offs.
• Identify issues and lead in solving them across project, process, tech, or business areas.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts; monitor metrics and on-call tasks.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code review and design standards.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Backend development

Code quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

MySQL

AWS

Job description

Affirm is a remote-first company redefining credit with a focus on transparency. The engineering teams build scalable backend systems that power Affirm’s mission and enable reliable checkout experiences for merchants and customers.

The role emphasizes ownership of quarterly goals, collaboration across product, design, and analytics, and proactive problem solving. A strong emphasis on quality, mentorship, and architecture integrity is shown throughout the ad.