Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform)

Summary

Staff Software Engineer leading technical strategy for Affirm's Order Platform, a post-checkout system handling orders, captures, refunds, and settlement at scale. You'll design and operate highly available distributed systems, set architecture direction for your team, mentor senior engineers, and own reliability and availability across Python/Kotlin backend services. The role requires 8+ years building scalable backend systems with AWS, Kubernetes, and MySQL, ideally with payments or financially-sensitive domain experience.