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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
Affirm currently has
60 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$195,000–$255,000
across 60 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant & Partner Lifecycle), you will join the Merchant & Partner Lifecycle team to lead the development of a new lifecycle-orchestrator service. You will be responsible for building out this core service to consolidate merchant lifecycle orchestration into a cohesive domain, improving system availability through simplification and modernization. Your daily work involves designing and expanding platform backbones to scale globally, mentoring other engineers, and executing technical strategies for complex requirements. You will utilize tools such as Claude Code, AWS, gRPC, Snowflake, Kotlin, Python, MySQL, and Kubernetes while managing state machines and event-driven architectures. The role focuses on solving architectural risks by isolating systems and improving infrastructure for merchant management. Key competencies include Domain-Driven Design, API design, database design, and experience with monitoring tools like Sentry, Rollbar, Chronosphere, and Kibana.