Senior Backend Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Identity Foundations
Affirm
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $169,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython
About the role
- Responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
- Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
- Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
- Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics.
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards.
Requirements
- 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 defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
- Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base.
- 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
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonKotlinbackend systemsdistributed systemscode reviewdesign standardstechnical planninglarge code basemetrics monitoringproblem solving
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationquality ownershipproactive identificationstakeholder supportteam managementambiguity resolutioneffective collaborationculture fostering
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree
