Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Systems (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Portland (OR); A distancia; USD 173.000 - 255.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

100% medical for you and dependents

Tech spending stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Descripción de la vacante

affirm is hiring for a backend engineering role within its Consumer Engineering group. You will own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to address constraints and risks.

You will drive issues, support on-call workload, and raise the bar for code quality and design standards across the team. The position values growth, ownership, and strong communication as you partner with a global engineering team to deliver scalable backend

Formación

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Ability define a technical plan for significant features with simple, extensible design.
• Capable of making large-scale changes safely in a big codebase.

Responsabilidades

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to balance constraints and trade-offs.
• Identify and drive resolution of project, process, technology, or business issues.
• Support operations and on-call efforts and maintain team artifacts with metrics.

Conocimientos

Backend systems design

Distributed systems

Python/Kotlin

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL/MySQL

Communication

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Herramientas

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

affirm is hiring for a backend engineering role within its Consumer Engineering group. You will own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to address constraints and risks.

You will drive issues, support on-call workload, and raise the bar for code quality and design standards across the team. The position values growth, ownership, and strong communication as you partner with a global engineering team to deliver scalable backend