Senior Backend Engineer - Trust & Safety (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech & wellness stipends

ESPP stock purchase plan

Flexible time off

Job summary

AffiRm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own quarterly goals and lead engineers through ambiguity to deliver scalable back-end systems. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to translate requirements, articulate constraints, and make trade-offs while maintaining high quality code.

The role emphasizes ownership, proactive issue resolution, and shaping a culture of quality within a remote-friendly, nationwide team. A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is preferred.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Track record of building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Defined technical plans for delivering significant features with elegant, extensible design.
• Able to write high quality, understandable code and enable safe large-scale changes.
• Proactive in seeking feedback and taking ownership of growth.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics to ideate, state constraints, and trade-offs.
• Identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for and lead solutions.
• Support team operations and availability of artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics and on-call efforts.
• Set or improve code review and design standards and advocate for them beyond the team.
• Develop talent on the team by providing feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Code quality

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Python

Kotlin

Job description

AffiRm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own quarterly goals and lead engineers through ambiguity to deliver scalable back-end systems. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to translate requirements, articulate constraints, and make trade-offs while maintaining high quality code.

The role emphasizes ownership, proactive issue resolution, and shaping a culture of quality within a remote-friendly, nationwide team. A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is preferred.