Senior Backend Engineer Trust Safety

Build real-time backend systems for Affirm’s Trust & Safety Engineering organization, using Python or Kotlin in a remote Canadian role. Help protect consumers, merchants, and the network from fraud and abuse.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own quarterly goals and guide engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems. You will collaborate with product management, design, analytics, data science, risk, and operations. Your work will support highly available distributed systems and evolving threats at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own quarterly team goals and lead delivery through ambiguity
• Collaborate on product ideation, constraints, risks, and trade-offs
• Identify and resolve project, process, technology, and business issues
• Monitor metrics, availability, escalations, and on-call operations
• Improve quality standards, mentor talent, and share technical knowledge

Requirements:

• Four or more years designing and launching backend systems at scale
• Experience with Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
• Track record developing highly available distributed systems
• Ability to design significant features with simple extensible architecture
• Strong written and verbal communication across global engineering teams

Bring backend engineering, distributed systems, technical leadership, and ownership to Affirm’s remote Trust & Safety team.

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