Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Backend, Identity Engineering
$232-310k
Salary dependent on location. Plus ESPP
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$232-310k
Salary dependent on location. Plus ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset
- Proven experience delivering multi-year, high-impact projects with broad cross-functional collaboration
- Strong system design and software engineering skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical and business requirements
- A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
- Excellent written and verbal communication, especially in asynchronous formats (RFCs, design docs, project plans)
- Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Analytics, and Business teams
- Kotlin development experience is a plus
- Excited about Affirm’s mission to deliver honest financial products
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a key role in Identity Engineering to define the technical direction and foster innovation across the engineering organization
- You’ll work closely with engineering leaders, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to create solutions that are scalable, reliable, and high-performing
- You'll help shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives
- Identity Engineering owns the systems responsible for onboarding all consumers and managing their authentication and verification journeys across Affirm’s product surfaces
- In this role, you will need to gain a deep understanding of the business, product and engineering context, and utilize that context to define the requirements, vision, and roadmap of the Identity area
- You will lead the team to influence and align with business stakeholders and engineering partners, and deliver the vision over multiple years in incremental milestones
- Define the multi-year, multi-team technical strategy and deliver it through direct implementation and broad technical leadership
- Architect and build the next-generation Identity services, ensuring high availability and low latency to support Affirm’s financial products
- Influence and align with cross-functional leaders across the organization, guided by deep domain context and engineering expertise
- Mentor engineers and advocate for engineering excellence, influencing best practices across teams
- Navigate ambiguity, bringing clarity to complex engineering, product, and business discussions
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
Kirsty
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Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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