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About Affirm
Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending
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Listed pay typically runs
$195,000–$255,000
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The Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering) joins the Ledger Engineering team to build an audit-grade ledger platform that connects company growth to regulated accounting controls. You will set long-term technical strategy, lead critical business-impacting projects, and act as a force-multiplier by defining operational processes, monitoring, and code review standards. Your daily work involves collaborating with product management and design to manage technical risks while ensuring system availability and reliability. You will utilize Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes to develop highly available distributed systems. This role solves complex problems in financial systems, ledgering, and treasury, bridging the gap between data and the forensic level of reporting required for monthly books, annual audits, and investor reporting in a publicly-traded environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.
Set the technical strategy for your team on a year-long scale and align it with business-impacting projects.
Manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs throughout the product development lifecycle with cross-functional partners.
Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes to act as a force-multiplier for the team.
Own team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, and alerting systems.
Establish and enforce code review and design standards while advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
Develop team talent by providing consistent feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
Design and launch high-quality backend systems and distributed components using Python, Kotlin, AWS, and Kubernetes.
What we're looking for
You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
You have experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury, or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical.
You have experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
You have the ability to move from low-level language idioms to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.