Senior Backend Engineer, Search & Discovery - Remote

Affirm; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health stipend

Tech stipend

Health, dental & vision for you and up

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Affim is building a global backend platform to power discovery and shopping experiences at scale. You will set the technical strategy for your team across a year-long horizon, partnering with product management, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable, measurable impact.

You will own operations, guide code quality, and help develop talent by mentoring teammates. The role emphasizes shipping major features with a clear execution plan, working across a distributed, on-call culture, and driving

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems (AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes).
• Experience delivering major features and deprecating functionality with a technical plan.
• Strong communication across a global engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long horizon and align with business goals.
• Collaborate across product, design and analytics to ensure sustainable, trade-off aware solutions.
• Define and advocate technical solutions and operational processes to improve reliability.
• Own team operations, availability, monitoring, on-call, and incident response.
• Promote code quality, design standards, and cultivate talent through mentorship.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

React

Team collaboration

Search/Recommendations

Python/Kotlin

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

React

Job description

Affim is building a global backend platform to power discovery and shopping experiences at scale. You will set the technical strategy for your team across a year-long horizon, partnering with product management, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable, measurable impact.

You will own operations, guide code quality, and help develop talent by mentoring teammates. The role emphasizes shipping major features with a clear execution plan, working across a distributed, on-call culture, and driving