Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 173,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Stipends

Holidays

ESPP

Remote-first onboarding

Job summary

AffiRm seeks an experienced Backend Engineer to own and deliver quarterly team goals, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems. You will partner with product, design and analytics to define technical plans and balance risks across the lifecycle.

You will drive production-grade, scalable systems with a focus on reliability and performance, collaborating with a global team and contributing to code quality and architectural decisions.

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.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with an elegant, simple design.
• Experience making significant changes in a large codebase with safe tooling.
• Demonstrated ownership of growth and proactive feedback seeking from team and stakeholders.
• 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, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics to ideate, articulate constraints, and balance risks.
• Identify project, process, technology or business issues and lead in solving them.
• Support team artifacts availability by creating and monitoring metrics and handling on-call efforts.
• Set or improve code review and design standards and advocate them beyond your team.
• Develop talent by giving feedback and leading by example.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

Communication

Ownership & growth

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

AffiRm seeks an experienced Backend Engineer to own and deliver quarterly team goals, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems. You will partner with product, design and analytics to define technical plans and balance risks across the lifecycle.

You will drive production-grade, scalable systems with a focus on reliability and performance, collaborating with a global team and contributing to code quality and architectural decisions.