Remote Staff Software Engineer, Fraud Decisioning Backend

Affirm, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage 100% for employees &/

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the Fraud Decisioning team on critical risk systems. You will design and build tools that empower fraud fighting capabilities, partner with product, ML, analytics and business units, and mentor engineers to grow their skills and ownership.

You will drive cross-functional initiatives, review code quality, and shape the technical direction to balance growth with risk management while maintaining a remote-friendly work model across the US.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience with responsibility for mentoring junior engineers.
• Strong track record architecting and delivering complex systems.
• Ability to work with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute large cross-functional initiatives: define project scope, technical specs, task breakdown, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Create simple, elegant designs that are easily deployed and debuggable, while handling unhappy paths.
• Review others' work to maintain high and consistent quality across teams.
• Lead and mentor engineers, providing context and encouraging ownership of components.
• Incorporate needs from stakeholders, advocate ideas, and align voices across teams.
• Develop and review technical interview content and participate in hiring decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the Fraud Decisioning team on critical risk systems. You will design and build tools that empower fraud fighting capabilities, partner with product, ML, analytics and business units, and mentor engineers to grow their skills and ownership.

You will drive cross-functional initiatives, review code quality, and shape the technical direction to balance growth with risk management while maintaining a remote-friendly work model across the US.