Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety — Remote

Affirm, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% subsidized medical coverage

ESPP (employee stock purchase plan)

Monthly stipends for tech setup

Generous time off

Job summary

AffiRm, a remote-first company, seeks an experienced backend engineer to own and deliver quarterly goals for a team building scalable systems. You will collaborate across product, design, and analytics to shape technical decisions and manage risk while ensuring reliability and performance.

You will lead by example, setting high code quality and design standards, and help grow talent within the team. Mostly remote with occasional in-person onboarding in the US.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale with Python or Kotlin.
• Experience building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Ability define a technical plan for delivery of significant features with simple, extensible design.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and guide engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics in the lifecycle of product development.
• Identify and lead resolution of project, process, or tech issues and drive improvements.
• Support team operations, metrics, and on-call duties to keep systems reliable.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python/Kotlin

AWS

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

AffiRm, a remote-first company, seeks an experienced backend engineer to own and deliver quarterly goals for a team building scalable systems. You will collaborate across product, design, and analytics to shape technical decisions and manage risk while ensuring reliability and performance.

You will lead by example, setting high code quality and design standards, and help grow talent within the team. Mostly remote with occasional in-person onboarding in the US.