Senior Software Engineer (Identity Decisioning)

Job Description

Affirm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Identity Engineering team. This role is focused on building and maintaining high-availability, low-latency systems for consumer onboarding, authentication, and verification. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of business, product, and engineering contexts to effectively deliver solutions.

What the role involves:
• Owning and delivering quarterly goals for the team.
• Leading engineers to solve open-ended problems.
• Collaborating with product management, design, and analytics.
• Identifying and resolving project, process, technology, or business issues.
• Supporting the operations and availability of team artifacts.
• Fostering a culture of quality and ownership.
• Developing talent on the team through feedback and guidance.

Requirements:
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
• Proficiency in making significant changes in a large code base.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

What Affirm offers:
• Competitive benefits package.
• Health care coverage with premiums fully covered for employees and dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Employee stock purchase plan.

Affirm is a remote-first company, and this role can be performed remotely within Canada.