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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Loans Platform)

Affirm is a public fintech company reinventing credit to make it honest and customer-friendly. The Loans Platform team builds and scales Affirm’s core loan products; we’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale the platform dramatically, deliver new product features, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain high reliability and velocity.

Skills

  • 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin
  • Experience building highly available distributed systems (AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes)
  • Proven ability to define technical plans and deliver significant features or components with extensible designs
  • Comfort making large codebase changes safely with tooling and practices for testing, review and deployment
  • Strong verbal and written communication to collaborate across a global engineering organization

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team, guiding engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems
  • Collaborate with product, design and analytics to shape features, articulate technical constraints, and weigh trade-offs
  • Proactively identify and lead resolution of project, process, technology, or business issues
  • Support operations and availability through metrics, monitoring, escalation, and on-call participation
  • Define and improve code review and design standards; advocate for quality and engineering best practices
  • Mentor and develop talent on the team by providing feedback, guidance and technical leadership

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage and dependent dental & vision
  • Flexible Spending Wallets and monthly stipends for tech, food and lifestyle
  • Generous parental benefits and learning & development programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and equity rewards
  • Remote-first policy with occasional office work for proximal roles; Away Days and competitive time off
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DATE POSTED
August 19, 2025
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