Senior Backend Engineer: Scale & Reliability (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% subsidized medical coverage for员工

Monthly stipends for health and tech

Flexible time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services. You will own delivery of quarterly goals, lead engineers, and partner with product, design, and analytics to balance speed and reliability.

You will craft robust distributed systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, write clean code, and drive safety with tooling and reviews. This remote-friendly role rewards ownership, learning, and clear communication with a global

Qualifications

• Design, develop and launch backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Develop highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Define a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with an elegant, extensible design.
• Write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Own changes in a large code base with tools and practices to do so safely.
• Proactively seek feedback from the team, manager and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication for collaboration with a global team.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product, design & analytics during ideation and decision making.
• Identify and lead solutions to project, process, technology or business issues.
• Support operations of team artifacts by monitoring metrics and on-call efforts.
• Set and promote code review and design standards across the team.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Ownership

Communication

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services. You will own delivery of quarterly goals, lead engineers, and partner with product, design, and analytics to balance speed and reliability.

You will craft robust distributed systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, write clean code, and drive safety with tooling and reviews. This remote-friendly role rewards ownership, learning, and clear communication with a global