Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning)

We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead impactful projects and initiatives on the Fraud team within the Trust and Safety Department. You’ll be responsible for building tools and systems that empower Affirm fraud fighting capabilities, work with cross-functional teams to adopt and monitor those and use analytics and data driven decisions to further improve the performance and quality of fraud deciders. Our mission is to drive growth while protecting Affirm, consumers, and merchants. We achieve this by leveraging data to evaluate risk at critical points in the user journey, adapting to the ever-changing fraud landscape, and by introducing new fraud-fighting capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Evolve the technical strategy for Fraud area keeping extensibility, robustness, performance and Product strategy in mind.

• Draft, review and refine technical specification documents. Participate in architectural reviews and closely collaborate with other tech leads in the Trust and Safety Department.

• Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and robust solutions.

• Effectively communicate with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders to create a common understanding and enable effective decision-making

• Review others’ work and provide constructive feedback in order to maintain high and consistent quality standards across teams.

• Lead and mentor engineers to help them succeed and grow. Provide the right context to engineers and train them to take ownership of their respective pieces of the initiative. 

• Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence the hiring decisions. Develop and review the technical content and requirements of the interview process.

What We Look For

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership exposure and experience mentoring junior engineers

• Expert at synthesizing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software

• A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be proficient in asynchronous communication – written tech specs, RFCs, project plans, etc.

• Excellent project management skills – high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively.

• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics and Business teams

• Python/Kotlin development experience.

• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers.

Pay Grade - USA 32

Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year:

Min: $222,300

Mid: $277,800

Max: $333,400

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year:

Min: $200,000

Mid: $250,000

Max: $300,100

Location: Remote - US

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