Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Trust and Safety)

Summary

Staff Software Engineer leading technical strategy and complex initiatives for Affirm's Trust and Safety Foundations team, which builds systems for consumer risk assessment and credit reporting. You'll design and operate distributed backend systems at scale, set team technical direction, collaborate across product and analytics teams to balance reliability and business needs, and mentor engineers while raising engineering quality standards. Requires 8+ years designing scalable backend systems in Python or Kotlin, extensive experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes, and proven ability to deliver major features and system components through clear technical planning.