Senior Backend Engineer — Scale Payments (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% subsidized medical coverage

ESPP stock purchase plan

Tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer for the Consumer Engineering team in the United States. You will own quarterly goals, lead engineers, and partner with product, design, and analytics to deliver scalable solutions that are robust and transparent.

You will write high-quality code in Python or Kotlin, design distributed services on AWS with MySQL and Kubernetes, and drive code quality, reviews, and on-call support. Remote-first with flexible in-person onboarding is available.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with elegant, extensible design.
• Proven track record of safe large-scale codebase changes and building supporting tooling.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth and proactive feedback seeking.
• Strong verbal and written communication for collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product, design, analytics to ideate, define constraints, and make trade-off decisions.
• Identify and lead解决 project, process, technology, or business issues and drive solutions.
• Maintain team artifacts, monitor metrics, escalate when needed, and support on-call responsibilities.
• Set and uphold code review and design standards, promoting quality across teams.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and guidance, leading by example.

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer for the Consumer Engineering team in the United States. You will own quarterly goals, lead engineers, and partner with product, design, and analytics to deliver scalable solutions that are robust and transparent.

You will write high-quality code in Python or Kotlin, design distributed services on AWS with MySQL and Kubernetes, and drive code quality, reviews, and on-call support. Remote-first with flexible in-person onboarding is available.