Senior Backend Engineer - Scale APIs & Impact (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipends

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is hiring for a backend-focused role within Consumer Engineering. You will own quarterly goals, lead engineers through ambiguity, and ensure delivery with strong collaboration with product, design, and analytics teams.

You will help design scalable backend systems using Python or Kotlin, with emphasis on high availability on AWS and Kubernetes, and contribute to a culture of quality and ownership across the team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivering significant features with elegant, extensible design.
• Experience making large codebase changes safely with tooling and practices.
• Strong ownership mindset and proactive growth with feedback.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design & analytics across the lifecycle to balance risks and trade-offs.
• Identify and drive解决 project, process, technology or business issues and advocate for solutions.
• Support team operations and on-call efforts, monitor metrics, and keep systems running smoothly.
• Set and improve code review and design standards across the team and beyond.
• Develop talent through feedback and example.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is hiring for a backend-focused role within Consumer Engineering. You will own quarterly goals, lead engineers through ambiguity, and ensure delivery with strong collaboration with product, design, and analytics teams.

You will help design scalable backend systems using Python or Kotlin, with emphasis on high availability on AWS and Kubernetes, and contribute to a culture of quality and ownership across the team.