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$127,000–$165,100/yr
UK 5w PTO

  • Lead the Funnel Platform team building shared services and frameworks that other engineers use for lending decisions.
  • Shape engineering standards and review changes to ensure reliable, maintainable services for customer journey teams.
  • Use data to influence priorities and line-manage two engineers, fostering their growth and project ownership.

Technical Leadership Backend Engineering Python Django Distributed Systems

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Global

  • Own planning and delivery of the technical roadmap, leading backend, full stack, and QA engineers.
  • Optimize data pipelines, system performance, and reliability while managing technical risks.
  • Drive architecture modernization, reduce technical debt, and ensure clear documentation and knowledge sharing.

SplitMetrics builds growth solutions for mobile-first businesses with Apple Ads automation, A/B testing, and ASO tools. The remote-first team spans 20+ countries and values transparency, speed, and shared ownership.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Set technical strategy and align your team with critical, business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical risks and trade-offs.
  • Foster a culture of quality, ownership, and operational excellence through monitoring, testing, and engineering standards.

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time through installment loans, with no hidden fees or surprises. It is a remote-first company that values transparency, flexibility, and employee well-being, offering comprehensive benefits and a collaborative culture.

Global

  • Lead and develop a distributed backend engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Drive engineering execution from planning to delivery, partnering with product management and ensuring platform reliability.
  • Provide technical leadership in architecture, design, and operational excellence for Jitterbit's iPaaS and API management platform.

Jitterbit is a leading data, application, and process workflow automation solution, integrating critical business processes to accelerate digital transformation. A recognized leader in iPaaS and API Management with seven consecutive years in Gartner Magic Quadrant, the company has a collaborative, remote-first culture with team members worldwide.

Europe South Africa 5w PTO

  • Design and implement core backend services for high-performance, distributed payment systems.
  • Take ownership of architectural decisions, balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve developer experience through testing, code reviews, and documentation.

The company builds payment infrastructure that lets businesses manage payments efficiently across international markets. It is a globally distributed, product-driven engineering team that values collaboration, engineering excellence, and long-term growth.

UK Unlimited PTO

  • Build and operate systems for bank and card payments across Affirm’s international markets.
  • Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams to solve challenges across currencies and customer needs.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code review, design standards, and mentoring.

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time with no hidden fees. It is a remote-first company with a global team, emphasizing transparency and flexibility.

India

  • Lead, mentor, and develop backend and platform engineering teams responsible for API platforms and usage systems.
  • Own delivery outcomes, including roadmap commitments, execution quality, prioritization, and predictable delivery.
  • Drive operational excellence through SLOs, observability, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration.

They build shared product platforms that power APIs, integrations, AI-driven workflows, and usage-based consumption systems. They foster a collaborative, inclusive, and globally distributed engineering culture while supporting career growth and equal opportunities.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design, develop, and launch backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
  • Define technical plans for significant features with elegant, simple, and extensible designs.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code review, design standards, and tech talks.

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time with no hidden fees. It is a remote-first company with a global engineering team that builds reliable, performant, and scalable solutions.

Global

  • Lead a team of three backend developers to build and maintain integrations for payments, identity verification, and location services.
  • Design and own delivery of integrations from requirements to deployment, while guiding technical direction and mentoring engineers.
  • Improve existing integrations through testing, monitoring, and documentation, and participate in on-call rotation.

Fliff is a multinational sports gaming company with headquarters in Philadelphia and offices in New York, Austin, and Sofia. We are a close-knit, focused team that is welcoming, friendly, and diverse, with a lively and creative culture.

US

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals, leading engineers through ambiguity and ensuring support throughout delivery.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints and partner on decisions.
  • Foster a culture of quality by setting code review and design standards, and support on-call efforts and metrics monitoring.

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees or surprises. As a remote-first company with a focus on trust and safety, it fosters a culture of quality, ownership, and collaboration in a global engineering team.

Europe

  • Own new subscription products and funnels end to end, from build to launch and scale.
  • Manage the external development and DevOps partner, setting technical direction and standards.
  • Design scalable shared architecture and own reliability, payments, and analytics infrastructure.

MCR is an international product company behind online IQ tests, personality assessments, and brain-training platforms. Headquartered in Cyprus, it runs profitable subscription businesses built on fast experimentation and continuous growth.

$169,100–$250,280/yr
United States

  • Lead the team building and running studio-hosted services, managing backend engineers and overseeing architecture.
  • Own service architecture, write code, and serve as the first point of contact for backend decisions and incidents.
  • Integrate with platform services, manage operations, and ensure releases and deployment align with studio schedules.

31st Union is a diverse team of developers driven by a passion for art, building inclusive games like Project ETHOS. The team is united by core values, focuses on growth and innovation, and values varied voices to strengthen the team and games.

Canada

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership for building open-source infrastructure supporting federated AI and privacy-preserving technologies.
  • Lead architectural decisions, production readiness, and engineering best practices for a specialized squad.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate with product leadership to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.

The company is a mission-driven nonprofit building open-source infrastructure for federated AI and privacy-preserving technologies. It operates as a remote-first, globally distributed team with a highly collaborative, diverse culture.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design and deliver quarterly goals for the team, leading engineers through ambiguity.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints and manage risks.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code reviews, design standards, and tech talks.

Affirm provides a clear, predictable way to pay over time with no hidden fees. The Engineering team builds reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that power Affirm's mission.

US

  • Design, build, test, and deploy backend features across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management
  • Integrate with banks, card networks, and third-party services, handling the edge cases money movement demands
  • Write and review technical designs and participate in architecture discussions for distributed, event-driven systems

Astra builds mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale, processing billions in annual transaction volume. They are a small, remote-first team with a culture of thoughtful collaboration and initiative.

Ukraine

  • Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs using Python and modern frameworks.
  • Build efficient solutions for large-scale data processing, transformation, and aggregation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical and performance issues.

Ciklum is a global software engineering and technology consulting company that empowers organizations to build digital products and shape the future. We are a diverse team of professionals who thrive in a collaborative, lean, and fast-paced environment.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver them in phases while collaborating with your team.
  • Partner with product, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints, assess trade-offs, and shape decisions.
  • Support system availability by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating issues, and participating in on-call efforts.

Affirm is a financial technology company offering point-of-sale installment loans and payment solutions that let consumers pay over time predictably. It is a publicly traded, remote-first company with a global engineering team and a culture centered on transparency, customer trust, and flexibility.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Own features end to end, from shaping the problem to launching in production.
  • Set technical strategy and collaborate with product, design, and analytics.
  • Foster a culture of quality through code review standards and on-call health.

Affirm provides clear, predictable pay-over-time options with no hidden fees. We are a remote-first company focused on quality, security, and using AI to improve customer experiences.

$196,000–$203,000/yr
North America

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers through regular one-to-ones, performance feedback, and career development.
  • Drive backend architecture and technical strategy while remaining hands-on with critical production systems.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical execution with creative vision and deliver a realistic technical roadmap.

A fully remote game development studio creating immersive multiplayer experiences centered on connection, exploration, and shared adventures. They foster a collaborative, inclusive environment with a lean engineering team that values curiosity, adaptability, and continuous improvement.

$275,000–$320,000/yr
North America

  • Lead engineering, DevOps, and data teams, owning architecture, reliability, and delivery of the platform banks depend on.
  • Set engineering strategy, coaching managers and building a culture of ownership, craft, and direct feedback.
  • Drive AI adoption across workflows and partner with product, revenue, and compliance for secure, regulated operations.

Treasury Prime is the operating layer for modern banking, running the largest bank network for embedded finance with modern APIs. We're a small, senior, fully remote team with a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and ownership.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build the gateway, runtime, and evals services for AI workloads at scale.
  • Own technical decisions from design to launch, including identity, quota, and failover controls.
  • Partner with security and infrastructure teams to set guardrails for agentic workloads.

We provide clear, predictable pay-over-time financial products with no hidden fees. We are a remote-first company with an engineering culture centered on blameless postmortems and detailed technical design.