Affirm
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lakehouse Infra)
$173K–$255K
Remote US +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Remote US
Remote Canada - Experience
- 4+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads engineering work on scalable, reliable lakehouse infrastructure that provides offline data access for Affirm’s batch and analytics workloads.
What you'll do
- Own quarterly team goals, guide engineers through ambiguous problems, and support delivery.
- Collaborate with product, design, and analytics stakeholders on ideas, constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
- Improve system operations and availability, set quality standards, and develop team members.
What they ask for
- 4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Experience scaling relevant data technologies such as Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Terraform.
- Experience defining technical plans and delivering significant features or system components.
Pay
USD 195,000 - USD 255,000 base salary; USD 173,000 - USD 233,000 base salary
Tools
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Iceberg, Flink, Airflow
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