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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning)

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

Listed for United States

Source: the job board's country tag. The advert itself does not name United States.

Employer listed it 10 days ago · Added 2 weeks ago

Been open since 2 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

$230,000 to $290,000

Location

Listed for United States

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

Quoted word for word from the employer's advert. Where it says nothing, we say so.

Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law.
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: 6-10+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
Pay: Base Pay Grade - P

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote US"
Job description states: "based in San Francisco or Los Angeles"

What Nomaders makes of it

Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only

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About the role

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

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. We achieve this by leveraging data to evaluate risk at critical points in the user journey, adapting to the ever-changing fraud landscape, and by introducing new fraud-fighting capabilities..

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.

What We Look For

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.

Base Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - USA 13

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

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

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Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

Benefits

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How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Affirm, mentioning your remote working experience.
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 17d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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