About the role

Powered by Affirm (PBA) team builds the APIs and tools driving checkout and merchant onboarding for Enterprise Merchants and Partners. Senior backend engineer owns quarterly team goals, leads engineers through ambiguity, and builds highly available distributed systems at scale. Remote-first; US base pay $173,000-$233,000/year in most states. Requires 4+ years backend experience in Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, large-codebase fluency, and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Requirements

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin
• Track record of developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• Experience defining technical plans with elegant, simple, extensible designs
• Proficiency making significant changes in a large code base safely
• Ownership of personal growth, proactively seeking feedback
• Strong verbal and written communication for collaboration with a global engineering team
• Equivalent practical experience or Bachelor's degree in a related field

What you'll do

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity
• Collaborate with product management, design and analytics on ideation and technical trade-offs
• Proactively identify and solve project, process, technology or business issues
• Support operations and availability: create and monitor metrics, escalate, on-call
• Set or improve code review and design standards and advocate for them company-wide