Affirm · 2 days ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud)

Raleigh, NC

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

CAD$206K/yr - CAD$256K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Evolve the technical strategy for Fraud area keeping extensibility, robustness, performance and Product strategy in mind.

Draft, review and refine technical specification documents. Participate in architectural reviews and closely collaborate with other tech leads in the Trust and Safety Department.

Partner cross-functionally with product and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and robust solutions.

Effectively communicate with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders to create a common understanding and enable effective decision-making.

Review others’ work and provide constructive feedback 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.

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.

Qualification

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Software engineeringSystem designDistributed systemsArchitectural decisionsProject managementPythonKotlinAWSCloud providersLeadershipMentoringCommunicationOrganizationCross-functional collaboration

Required

10+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership exposure and experience mentoring junior engineers

Expert at synthesizing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software

A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be proficient in asynchronous communication – written tech specs, RFCs, project plans, etc.

Excellent project management skills – high degree of organization and ability to surface critical information effectively

Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics and Business teams

Python/Kotlin development experience

Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers