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About Affirm
Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending
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Listed pay typically runs
$195,000–$255,000
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As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Data), you will join the Identity Engineering team to manage systems responsible for consumer onboarding, authentication, and verification journeys. You will own and deliver quarterly goals, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems while ensuring high-availability and low-latency performance on critical product paths. Your daily work involves collaborating with product management and design to articulate technical constraints, creating metrics for operational support, and setting code review standards. You will utilize Python or Kotlin to develop distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. The role requires designing extensible systems and making significant changes to large codebases. You will solve technical problems related to identity data management, ensuring secure and reliable access across various product surfaces.