Senior Backend Engineer, Scale & Impact (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Miami (FL); Remote; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Tech stipend

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

affirm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend systems used by millions. You will lead engineers, define technical plans, and partner with product and design to ship reliable features with measurable impact.

We value ownership, high-quality code, clear communication, and a bias for action. This remote-first role offers competitive USA base pay ranges and equity, with flexibility for in-person onboarding as needed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining a technical plan for delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with a global engineering team.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems and ensuring delivery support.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics during ideation, articulating technical constraints and balancing risks and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Support operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards, and advocating beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend design

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Code quality

Ownership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

affirm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend systems used by millions. You will lead engineers, define technical plans, and partner with product and design to ship reliable features with measurable impact.

We value ownership, high-quality code, clear communication, and a bias for action. This remote-first role offers competitive USA base pay ranges and equity, with flexibility for in-person onboarding as needed.