Affirm
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data)
$173K–$255K
Remote US · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Own and deliver high-availability, low-latency backend systems supporting consumer onboarding, authentication, and verification across Affirm products.
What you'll do
- Lead delivery of team goals and guide engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems.
- Collaborate with product, design, and analytics on product decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
- Improve system reliability and team quality through operational monitoring, on-call support, and engineering standards.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, developing, and launching scalable backend systems using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
- Track record building highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience planning and delivering significant features or system components; writes high-quality, maintainable code.
- Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
Pay
$195,000 - $255,000 USD base salary; $173,000 - $233,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes
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