Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Card Defense

Summary

Join our team at Affirm as a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects and initiatives on the Fraud Decisioning team, building tools and systems that empower fraud fighting capabilities.

Requirements

• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 5+ years as a Software Engineer, with leadership and mentoring experience
• Proficient in Python or Kotlin
• Experience with MySQL and relational databases
• Familiarity with PyCharm or IntelliJ IDEA
• Proven track record in architecting and maintaining complex systems
• Strong ability to synthesize business, product, and technical requirements

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage
• Dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount