Affirm · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Growth Platform)
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$220K/yr - $270K/yr
8+ years expAffirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Growth Platform team. This role involves setting technical strategy, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring the robustness of backend platforms that influence customer acquisition and retention.
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Responsibilities
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, owning backend platforms that power incentives and growth initiatives across Affirm
You will collaborate with product management, analytics, and partner teams to shape technical direction for incentive systems, ensuring long-term sustainability, correctness, and clear trade-offs that inform roadmap decisions
You will act as a force-multiplier by defining platform abstractions, APIs, and architectural patterns that enable product teams to safely launch, experiment with, and evolve incentive-based experiences
You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, playbooks, and on-call practices are in place for business-critical incentive and growth systems
You will foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting clear design and code review standards, and advocating for them beyond your immediate team through written proposals and technical discussions
You will help develop talent on your team by providing actionable feedback, technical guidance, and leadership on complex, high-impact systems
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
An extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes
Experience building or evolving shared backend platforms that support Rewards, Loyalty, Incentives, Experimentation, or other growth-critical workflows used by multiple product teams
Led complex technical initiatives that required cross-team alignment, long-term architectural thinking, and influence without direct authority
Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through the definition and execution of a clear technical plan
Ability to write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
Thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low-level language idioms to the architecture of large-scale systems to understand how they work end to end
Growth and impact trajectory demonstrates mastery in gathering, incorporating, and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering organization
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
Benefits
Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
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
Company
Affirm
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (104)
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2023 (133)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.57BKey Investors
New York Life InsuranceSixth StreetPGIM Fixed Income
2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2024-12-17Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2024-12-13Post Ipo Debt· $4B
Leadership Team
Max Levchin
Founder & CEO
Robert O'Hare
Chief Financial Officer
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