Staff Backend Engineer - Identity Decisioning (Remote)

Affirm; New York (NY); Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first compensation

Spending wallets

Employee resource groups

Remote-first Workforce

Generous time off

Health benefits

Mental healthcare

Parental leave

Away days

Learning & development

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an experienced engineering leader to set the technical strategy for a high-impact backend team. You will drive collaboration with product, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable solutions and clear risk trade-offs, while owning on-call readiness and operational excellence.

You will establish coding and design standards, promote high-quality delivery, and mentor engineers to grow with the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale (Python or Kotlin).
• Ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Comfort with ambiguity and scaling from low-level idioms to large system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long horizon and tie it to business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across product management, design and analytics for sustainability, risk and trade-off decisions.
• Define and advocate technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own your team’s operations and availability with monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and on-call readiness.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting design and code-review standards and sharing them across teams.
• Develop talent by mentoring and guiding team members and leading by example.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced engineering leader to set the technical strategy for a high-impact backend team. You will drive collaboration with product, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable solutions and clear risk trade-offs, while owning on-call readiness and operational excellence.

You will establish coding and design standards, promote high-quality delivery, and mentor engineers to grow with the team.