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Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Growth Platform

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

61 days ago

Salary

$200K - $250K / year

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishAWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMy SQLPythonSpark

Job Description

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, owning backend platforms that power incentives and growth initiatives. • Collaborate with product management, analytics, and partner teams to shape technical direction for incentive systems. • Act as a force-multiplier by defining platform abstractions, APIs, and architectural patterns. • Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, playbooks, and on-call practices. • Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting design and code review standards. • Help develop talent on your team by providing actionable feedback, technical guidance, and leadership.

Job Requirements

8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
An extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
Experience building or evolving shared backend platforms that support Rewards, Loyalty, Incentives, Experimentation, or other growth-critical workflows used by multiple product teams.
Led complex technical initiatives that required cross-team alignment, long-term architectural thinking, and influence without direct authority.
Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a clear technical plan.
Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable moving from low-level language idioms to large-scale systems architecture.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering organization.
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