Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Furnishing Platform)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Own and deliver strategic outcomes: Drive the definition and delivery of quarterly and long-term goals, ensuring your team''s work ladders up to company-wide objectives.
• - Lead engineers through ambiguity and open-ended problems, providing clarity and direction.
• - Shape architecture and technical strategy: Influence the design of backend systems across multiple teams.
• - Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with product, analytics, and design to define solutions.
• - Champion operational excellence: Ensure high availability and reliability of services by establishing strong monitoring, alerting, and recovery practices.
• - Mentor and grow talent: Guide engineers within and beyond your team through mentorship, code/design reviews, and technical leadership.
• - Scale impact beyond your team: Author technical proposals, share best practices via documentation and tech talks.

Required Skills

• - Deep technical expertise: 6+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems.
• - Strong proficiency in languages like Kotlin (or Python as a plus).
• - Proven track record of delivering high-volume, highly available systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes (Airflow, Spark, as a plus).
• - Experience defining technical strategies for complex, cross-team initiatives.
• - Skilled at building resilient systems with monitoring, alerting, and safe deployment practices.
• - History of mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and shaping best practices beyond your immediate group.
• - Excellent verbal and written skills that enable you to influence technical and product decisions across a global engineering org.

Benefits

• - Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending.
• - 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
• - Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc.
• - Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle.
• - Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge.
• - Learning & Development programs.
• - Parental benefits.
• - Employee Resource & Community Groups.