Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Continuous Delivery

Affirm

Senior Software Engineer managing backend systems for a fintech company. Leading the Continuous Delivery team to improve engineering productivity and software delivery speed.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $169,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for the team, leading engineers on the team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
Support the operations and availability of the team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
Foster a culture of quality and ownership on the team by setting or improving code review and design standards for the team, and advocating for them beyond the team through writing and tech talks.
Help develop talent on the team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
Experience building or evolving CI/CD, deployment, or release automation systems that reduce manual toil and improve rollout predictability, recovery, and auditability across many engineering teams.
Comfortable working on shared developer infrastructure and defining clear platform interfaces, templates, or guardrails that make it easier for product teams to adopt standard deployment patterns with confidence.
Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
Experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonKotlinAWSMySQLKubernetesCI/CDdeployment automationrelease automationcode reviewdesign standards

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationfeedbackownershipmentorshipadvocacyquality assuranceproactivity

Certifications

Bachelor's degree