Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Growth Platform)

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Growth Platform)

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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.

The Growth Platform team builds shared backend platforms that power incentives, experimentation, personalization, and data‑driven decisioning across affirm’s consumer and merchant experiences, directly influencing customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.

What you’ll do

• 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.

What we look for

Pay Grade

Equity Grade

Compensation

CAN base pay range per year : $178,000 - $228,000. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). Employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by affirm holdings, inc.

Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote‑first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Asserted flexibility is provided, with occasional on‑site requirements for proximal roles.

Benefits

EEO Statement

We believe it’s on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. By pursuing employment at affirm you acknowledge that we consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records under applicable local ordinances. By submitting your application you agree to affirm’s Global Candidate Privacy Notice and give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information.

Requirements

Seniority level : Mid‑Senior level.

Employment type : Full‑time.

Job function : Engineering and Information Technology.

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