Senior Backend Engineer - Scale, Availability, Remote

Affirm, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and deliver quarterly goals for their engineering teams.

You will work closely with product, design, and analytics to ideate, define technical constraints, and drive decisions that balance risks and trade-offs. You will design and implement highly available backend components, write high-quality, readable code, and help shape architecture for scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with Python or Kotlin.
• Proficient with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics in ideation and planning, articulating constraints and trade-offs.
• Identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology or business issues.

Skills

Backend design

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Code quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and deliver quarterly goals for their engineering teams.

You will work closely with product, design, and analytics to ideate, define technical constraints, and drive decisions that balance risks and trade-offs. You will design and implement highly available backend components, write high-quality, readable code, and help shape architecture for scalable systems.