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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make payments honest and consumer-friendly. The Ledger Engineering team owns the loans ledger—the financial source of truth—building and operating critical accounting infrastructure, high-throughput ETLs, reconciled reporting pipelines, and systems used by Finance, Accounting and Capital Markets. We’re seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to set technical strategy, deliver high-impact projects, and ensure the reliability and accuracy of our financial systems.

Skills

  • Expertise in backend languages such as Python or Kotlin
  • Experience building highly available distributed systems on AWS
  • Strong SQL and relational DB (MySQL) design and performance tuning
  • Experience with Spark and large-scale data processing frameworks
  • Kubernetes experience for orchestration and production deployments
  • Deep familiarity with financial/accounting systems, transactions and reconciliation
  • Proven experience designing and optimizing ETL and data pipelines
  • Operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, on-call, playbooks and SLAs
  • Strong verbal and written communication for cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Set year-long technical strategy and translate it into executable, business-impacting projects for the team
  • Collaborate with product management, design, analytics and cross-functional partners to balance sustainability, risk and trade-offs
  • Define and advocate technical solutions, coding and design standards; act as a force-multiplier for the team
  • Own operational reliability: monitoring, triage rotations, runbooks, testing, and alerting to support on-call efforts
  • Design, implement and optimize high-volume ETL and daily processing pipelines with strict SLAs and data integrity guarantees
  • Mentor and grow engineers through feedback, code reviews, design guidance and technical leadership

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Equivalent practical experience accepted in lieu of formal degree

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage (including dependents)
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible Spending Wallets and monthly stipends for technology, food and lifestyle
  • Generous time off, vacation and holiday policies
  • Equity opportunities and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Remote-first work model with occasional office presence for proximal roles
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DATE POSTED
August 25, 2025
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