[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning) @Affirm

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead projects and initiatives on the Fraud Decisioning team. 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, buyers, and merchants.

What You’ll Do:

• Work across the org to plan and execute large, cross-functional initiatives, including project definition, technical specification, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Generate simple and elegant designs that are easily deployed and debugged, but anticipate the unhappy path. Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• 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.
• Effectively incorporate needs and opinions from stakeholders, advocate for ideas and initiatives, and create a common understanding where all voices are heard.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Prior experience architecting, building, launching, coding, and maintaining complex systems.
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams.
• A technical leader and team builder who can mentor the team in software development best practices.
• Expert at synthesizing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high-quality system designs and software.
• A system architect who can see the big picture and envision how business and product requirements can be broken up into system modules or components.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Requirements

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - USA 13
• USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $230,000 - $290,000
• USA base pay range (all other U.S. states): $204,000 - $264,000

Benefits

• Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.
• Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
• Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.
• Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.