Staff Software Engineer, Security & Accounts (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to own and shape the technical strategy for a team within the Trust & Safety domain of the Checkout organization.

You will help design scalable backend systems using Python, Kotlin, AWS, and Kubernetes, while delivering features with robust execution plans. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable solutions, drive quality, and support on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale with Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality with a technical and execution plan.
• Thrive in ambiguity and understand how large systems work from low-level language idioms to architecture.
• Growth and impact trajectory showing feedback gathering with engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication supporting collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and align it with business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across product, design, and analytics to ensure sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are understood.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own your team’s operations and availability with monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards.
• Help develop talent by providing feedback and guidance and leading by example.

Skills

System design

Backend development

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

React

Vue

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Cross-functional collaboration

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

React

Vue

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to own and shape the technical strategy for a team within the Trust & Safety domain of the Checkout organization.

You will help design scalable backend systems using Python, Kotlin, AWS, and Kubernetes, while delivering features with robust execution plans. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable solutions, drive quality, and support on-call readiness.