Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable Cloud Compute

Affirm; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a senior backend engineer to own quarterly goals and drive delivery for our batch compute infrastructure. You will collaborate with product, design and analytics to balance risks and trade-offs while delivering reliable, scalable software.

You’ll build and maintain highly available distributed systems on AWS/Kubernetes, orchestrate workflows with Airflow-like tooling, and mentor teammates.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity to deliver on plans.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python/Kotlin

AWS/Kubernetes

Workflow orchestration

Spark/Flink on Kubernetes

Code quality

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Airflow

Flyte

Prefect

Temporal

Luigi

Job description

Affirm is seeking a senior backend engineer to own quarterly goals and drive delivery for our batch compute infrastructure. You will collaborate with product, design and analytics to balance risks and trade-offs while delivering reliable, scalable software.

You’ll build and maintain highly available distributed systems on AWS/Kubernetes, orchestrate workflows with Airflow-like tooling, and mentor teammates.