Senior Backend ML Platform Engineer (Remote Canada)

Affirm, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Monthly technology stipend

Wellness stipend

Flexible time off

Holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Remote work (Canada)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. seeks an experienced backend engineer to build and operate shared infrastructure for training and serving machine learning models in production.

The role blends backend engineering, distributed systems, and ML platform development to deliver dependable services that accelerate model delivery. You will own team goals, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to address constraints and risks.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, building, launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with Python or Kotlin in production.
• Experience with highly available distributed systems and cloud infra.
• Strong written and verbal communication for distributed teams.
• Ownership mindset and willingness to seek feedback.

Responsibilities

• Own team goals and guide engineers through technical work.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics on constraints, risks and decisions.
• Identify and lead efforts to address technical or operational problems.
• Monitor service health and contribute to incident response.
• Set and improve code review and design practices; mentor others.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Backend design

Communication

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Container platforms

Databases

Job description

Affirm, Inc. seeks an experienced backend engineer to build and operate shared infrastructure for training and serving machine learning models in production.

The role blends backend engineering, distributed systems, and ML platform development to deliver dependable services that accelerate model delivery. You will own team goals, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to address constraints and risks.