Senior Backend Engineer, Scale & Reliability (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 173,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage at no cost

Monthly tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Job summary

affirm is seeking a backend engineer to own and deliver quarterly goals for a team building scalable systems. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to ideate and implement robust, observable services, and mentor others.

You should have 4+ years designing backend systems with Python or Kotlin, experience with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, and a track record of delivering high-quality code. This remote-first role offers competitive pay and equity in the U.S.

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 AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining a technical plan for delivering a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base with a suite of tools and practices for safe delivery.
• Demonstrated ownership of growth and proactive seeking of feedback from team, manager and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field or practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics by ideation and articulating technical constraints.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues and lead in solving them.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts by creating/monitoring metrics and supporting on-call efforts.
• Set or improve code review and design standards and advocate for them beyond the team.
• Develop talent on your team by providing feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend (Python/Kotlin)

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

MySQL

Job description

affirm is seeking a backend engineer to own and deliver quarterly goals for a team building scalable systems. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to ideate and implement robust, observable services, and mentor others.

You should have 4+ years designing backend systems with Python or Kotlin, experience with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, and a track record of delivering high-quality code. This remote-first role offers competitive pay and equity in the U.S.