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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning)

Affirm

Remote · United States$17,000–24,167 gross/mofull-timeAffirm Careers

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.

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.
  • 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.

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    Senior
    Posted
    9 Oct 2026
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