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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning)

Affirm

Join Affirm as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning)

Affirm is at the forefront of financial innovation, providing consumers with honest and transparent financial products. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Identity Decisioning team. This team is crucial in building backend systems that validate consumer identity across all Affirm products, ensuring compliance with regulatory protocols such as KYC.

What You’ll Do

  • Collaborate with other software engineers to design, maintain, and evolve existing architecture that supports business growth and new product initiatives.
  • Drive Project Definition: Lead detailed project definition, design, technical specification, cross-functional alignment, task breakdown, and delivery.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide leadership to ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and performant technical solutions.
  • Mentorship: Build teams by mentoring other engineers, influencing hiring decisions, and fostering an inclusive team environment.
  • Strategic Input: Contribute to planning our product, codebase, infrastructure, team goals, and roadmap.

What We Look For

  • Experience: 4+ years of experience in designing, building, launching, and maintaining complex systems.
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency in the Python ecosystem, including Flask, Mypy, and Pytest.
  • Communication: Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
  • Leadership: A leader, team builder, and mentor who is passionate about Affirm's mission to deliver honest financial products.
  • Domain Knowledge: Experience in the Risk Engineering domain is a plus.

Benefits

Affirm offers a competitive benefits package anchored to our core value of putting people first. Highlights include:

  • Health Care Coverage: Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets: Generous stipends for spending on technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
  • Time Off: Competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
  • ESPP: An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

Work Environment

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company, allowing you to work from almost anywhere within the country of employment. While most roles are remote, some may require occasional office presence.

Salary

  • USA Base Pay Range: $190,000 - $240,000 (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT)
  • USA Base Pay Range: $169,000 - $219,000 (all other U.S. states)

Join us in our mission to improve lives through honest financial products. Apply today to be part of a team that is at the core of Affirm's mission to revolutionize the financial industry.

Benefits
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  • 100% subsidized medical coverage
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending Wallets
  • Generous vacation and holiday schedules
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

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