Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Fraud Decisioning

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $204k - $264k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Affirm

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Lead projects and initiatives on the Fraud Decisioning team • Build tools and systems that empower Affirm’s fraud-fighting capabilities • Work with cross-functional teams to adopt and monitor fraud systems • Use analytics and data-driven decisions to improve fraud decider performance and quality • Plan and execute large cross-functional initiatives, including project definition, technical specification, task breakdown, delivery, monitoring and maintenance • Create simple, elegant, deployable and debuggable designs that anticipate unhappy paths • Write high-quality, understandable and reusable code • Review others’ work and provide constructive feedback • Lead and mentor engineers and help them grow • Incorporate stakeholder needs, advocate for initiatives and build common understanding • Conduct technical and soft-skill evaluations for hiring decisions • Develop and review technical interview content and requirements

🎯 Requirements

• 6-10+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers • Prior experience architecting, building, launching, coding and maintaining complex systems • Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics and Business teams • Technical leadership and team-building experience • Expertise synthesizing complex business, product and technical requirements into high-quality system designs and software • System architecture experience, including breaking business and product requirements into system modules or components • Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

🏖️ Benefits

• Base pay may include equity rewards • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Flexible time off • Generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount • Remote-first flexibility • In-person onboarding experience • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities