Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform)

Affirm
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 204,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Ownership","Collaboration"]

Lead technical strategy for Affirm’s Order Platform systems that power orders, captures, refunds, and settlement after checkout. Drive reliability and simplicity at scale while consolidating internal post-checkout APIs through domain boundary work and migrations. You’ll mentor a small senior engineering team, set standards for monitoring, testing, and operational playbooks, and collaborate closely with product, design, and analytics to support future merchant and consumer launches.

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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform)

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Job Summary

Lead technical strategy for Affirm’s Order Platform systems that power orders, captures, refunds, and settlement after checkout. Drive reliability and simplicity at scale while consolidating internal post-checkout APIs through domain boundary work and migrations. You’ll mentor a small senior engineering team, set standards for monitoring, testing, and operational playbooks, and collaborate closely with product, design, and analytics to support future merchant and consumer launches.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical strategy for the team over a year-long timescale and align execution on critical, business-impacting projects.
  • •Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks and trade-offs.
  • •Own team operations and availability by defining monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting for on-call readiness.
  • •Establish and advocate code review and design standards; drive a culture of quality and ownership through writing and tech talks.
  • •Mentor and develop engineers through feedback and guidance while fostering force-multiplier technical solutions and operational processes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 204,000 - 290,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • •Experience building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
  • •Ability to design services with strong reliability characteristics and careful handling of consistency, idempotency, and failure modes in financially sensitive domains.
  • •Track record delivering major features or deprecating functionality through a clear technical and execution plan, with high-quality, reusable code.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in a related field (or equivalent practical experience) and strong verbal/written communication for global collaboration.
Experience:8+ yearsPaymentsCommerceFinancial services
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipCommunicationOwnershipCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonKotlinAWSMySQLSparkKubernetesAPI boundaries

Company Brief

Affirm
Provides point-of-sale lending and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) solutions for consumers and merchants, enabling installment payments, consumer financing, and embedded financial services through APIs and partnerships with retailers and platforms.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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