Lead Backend Engineer, Fraud Platform (Remote)

Affirm; New York (NY); Remote; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for dependents

Monthly stipends for tech setup

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affim is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead Fraud Decisioning initiatives, building tools and systems that empower fraud fighting capabilities. You will partner with product, ML, analytics, and business teams to drive data-driven improvements in risk evaluation across user journeys.

This remote-first role emphasizes planning large programs, scalable design, mentoring engineers, and evaluating candidates. Competitive pay, equity, and benefits accompany the package.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities.
• Experience architecting, building, launching, coding and maintaining complex systems.
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics and Business teams.
• A technical leader and team builder who mentors the team in best practices.
• Equally strong in synthesizing business, product and technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute large cross-functional initiatives from definition to maintenance.
• Design simple, maintainable, well-documented systems with clear failure modes.
• Review others' work to maintain high quality across teams.
• Lead and mentor engineers to grow and own their pieces of the initiative.
• Incorporate stakeholder needs and align teams for shared outcomes.
• Evaluate candidates and shape interview content for technical hires.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

System architecture

Cross-functional

Code quality

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

SQL

CI/CD

Job description

Affim is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead Fraud Decisioning initiatives, building tools and systems that empower fraud fighting capabilities. You will partner with product, ML, analytics, and business teams to drive data-driven improvements in risk evaluation across user journeys.

This remote-first role emphasizes planning large programs, scalable design, mentoring engineers, and evaluating candidates. Competitive pay, equity, and benefits accompany the package.