Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Account Management)

Affirm

13h • $204,000 - $290,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Account Management team is part of Trust & Safety within Affirm’s Checkout organization. It builds secure, intuitive experiences that help customers protect, manage, and recover access to their accounts. The team’s mission is to make account security seamless without unnecessary friction, so customers can confidently use Affirm.

The work spans the account security journey, from detecting and preventing unauthorized access to enabling self-service recovery and reducing the need for customer support. The team owns experiences such as Self-Service Phone Change, Settings & Security Center, and account information updates. These solutions affect customer trust, fraud prevention, and Affirm’s ability to scale safely.

The Staff Software Engineer will set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and help deliver critical, business-impacting projects. The role collaborates with product management, design, and analytics throughout product development, ensuring technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are understood and managed. It also promotes technical solutions and operational processes, owns team operations and availability, establishes quality standards, and develops team talent through feedback, guidance, and example.

Affirm is a remote-first company, and most roles can be performed from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and all new hires are invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency developing web applications with declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, using a defined technical and execution plan.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and move from low-level language idioms to large-system architecture to understand how systems work.
• A growth and impact trajectory demonstrating the ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
• Equivalent practical experience or a bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Set the team’s technical strategy on a year-long time scale and help connect it to critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
• Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that increase the team’s effectiveness.
• Own team operations and availability by ensuring appropriate monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting support ongoing operations and on-call efforts.
• Establish code review and design standards and advocate for quality and ownership beyond the team through writing and tech talks.
• Develop team talent by providing feedback and guidance and leading by example.
• Deliver major features and system components, or deprecate existing functionality, through a technical and execution plan.
• Write high-quality code that is easy for others to understand and use.

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents.
• Monthly stipends for technology setup and health and wellness options.
• Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
• Employee stock purchase plan that allows employees to buy Affirm stock at a discount.
• Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Equity rewards may be part of the total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior