Staff Software Engineer, Trust and Safety Experience (Fullstack)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
The Experience team's mission is to provide Affirm's customers seamless and safe authentication and identity verification experiences. More concretely, our team is dedicated to integrating new data, experimenting with new verification methods, and iterating continuously on the sign-in and sign-up experiences. Being at the top of the funnel, we are pressed by two main concerns, growth/funnel conversion and fraud detection. It requires a delicate balancing act that you will be at the center of.
What You'll Do

• Design and implement new platforms and frameworks to improve fraud fighting velocity and simultaneously better understanding consumer behavior.
• Work with product and internal partners to understand key concerns around fraud prevention and growth conversion.
• Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others
• Participate in our team's on-call rotation to communicate, escalate, and fix critical issues
• Participate in making our team and workplace an inclusive environment

What We Look For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience shipping production quality code
• Solid CS fundamentals
• Prior experience building and launching complex software systems
• Well-developed interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
• Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
• Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better!

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade - USA31
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[For U.S. Candidates] All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. The grade for this position is noted above and in accordance with various U.S. pay transparency laws, we provide the base pay range and benefits for our U.S.-based positions in the links below:
Jobs in Grades 21-54: shorturl.at/H0124
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If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways-not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that's why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report .
We also believe It's On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
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