Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning)

About the Role

At Affirm, 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's fraud-fighting capabilities, working with cross-functional teams to adopt and monitor those systems, and using analytics and data-driven decisions to further improve performance and quality.

What You’ll Do

• Work across the org to plan and execute large, cross-functional initiatives, including: project definition, technical specification, task breakdown, 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 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.
• Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.