Remote Backend Engineer - Data Streaming & Infra

affirm is hiring a software engineer to design, build, and scale backend systems using Python or Kotlin. You’ll work within a distributed systems stack including AWS, Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes, contributing to data infrastructure and event-driven architecture.

You’ll collaborate with product management, design, and analytics, break down tasks, and own facets of delivery, monitoring, and on-call reliability while growing your technical and leadership skills in a remote-first environment.