Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning)
Remote Canada
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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects and initiatives on the Fraud Decisioning team. You’ll be responsible for building tools and systems that empower Affirm fraud fighting capabilities, work with cross-functional teams to adopt and monitor those and use analytics and data driven decisions to further improve the performance and quality of fraud deciders. Our mission is to drive growth while protecting Affirm, buyers, and merchants. We achieve this by leveraging data to evaluate risk at critical points in the user journey, adapting to the ever-changing fraud landscape, and by introducing new fraud-fighting capabilities..
What You’ll Do
- Work across the org to plan and execute large, cross-functional initiatives, including: project definition, technical specification, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Generate simple and elegant designs that are easily deployed and debugged, but anticipate the unhappy path. Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
- Review others’ work and provide constructive feedback in order 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.
- Effectively incorporate needs and opinions from stakeholders, advocate for ideas and initiatives, and create a common understanding where all voices are heard.
- 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.
What We Look For
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 3-5+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership exposure and experience mentoring junior engineers
- Experience with PyCharm or IntelliJ Idea
- Prior experience architecting, building, launching, coding and maintaining complex systems
- Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, ML, Analytics and Business teams
- Expert at synthesizing complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software
Base Pay Grade - N
Equity Grade - 6
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Benefits/Perks100% subsidized medical 100% subsidized medical coverage Competitive benefits Competitive vacation and holiday schedules Dental and vision coverage Employee stock purchase plan Equity Equity rewards ESPP Flexible Spending Flexible Spending Wallets Health and wellness stipends Health care coverage Inclusive interview experience Inclusive interview experience for all Monthly stipends Monthly stipends for health Remote-first company Subsidized medical coverage Tech spending Time off Transparent pay structure Wellness Wellness and tech spending
Tasks- Coding
- Collaborate with teams
- Conduct evaluations
- Lead and mentor engineers
- Lead projects
- Mentor engineers
- Mentoring
- Working with cross-functional teams
- Write high-quality code
Analytics Backend Cross-functional Collaboration Data analysis Leadership Mentoring Monitoring REST Software Engineering System design
Experience3 - 5 years
EducationBachelor's degree Equivalent practical experience Related Field
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