Backend Software Engineer (Identity Decisioning)

Affirm

New York, United States Posted September 30, 2026

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Remote Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$146,000 - $225,000

Job Description

Join Affirm's Identity Decisioning team as a Backend Software Engineer. You'll be responsible for building backend systems that validate consumer identity and satisfy regulatory protocols. Collaborate with various teams to deliver transparent financial products and support the operations and availability of your team's artifacts. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, generous time off, health benefits, and opportunities for learning and development.

  • Contribuer à la construction de systèmes backend qui valident l'identité des consommateurs dans tous les produits d'Affirm.
  • Collaborer avec les équipes produit, conformité, authentification, fraude et d'autres équipes d'ingénierie pour livrer des produits financiers transparents.
  • Participer au cycle de développement du produit en collaborant avec la gestion de produit, le design et l'analyse.
  • You have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews
  • You are familiar with the building blocks of distributed systems, and the technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
  • You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
  • Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
  • You have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible code
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
Required Skills
software development collaboration learning and development compliance distributed systems Amazon Web Services MySQL Kubernetes written communication Python Kotlin
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