Staff Software Engineer (Trust & Safety)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly. 
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead projects and initiatives on the Identity Engineering team, responsible for building backend systems that build foundational capabilities and work on experiments to safely & securely identify consumers with low friction, with novel data and logic via data-driven and iterative approaches to increase user conversion rates. Our Identity Engineering team’s mission is to enable a single view of a user across our merchants, platforms, and Affirm experiences while ensuring that their account data represents a legitimate person.
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

USA Pacific base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $190,000 - $284,900
USA Sapphire base pay range (all other U.S. states): $171,000 - $256,500