Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning)

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $230,000–$290,000 / yr
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $195,331–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $260k versus about $217k for comparable roles.

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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 56 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $195,000–$255,000 across 54 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning)

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The Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning) joins the Identity team to manage identity for all markets outside North America. This role involves setting long-term technical strategy, defining operational processes, and leading the development of critical business-impacting projects. You will collaborate with product management and design to ensure technical sustainability while owning team operations, including monitoring, triage rotations, and code review standards. The position requires designing and launching backend systems using Python or Kotlin, with a focus on highly available distributed systems utilizing AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes. You will solve complex problems regarding KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning across multiple regulatory environments, ensuring the platform adapts to diverse market dynamics, customer expectations, and international compliance requirements while maintaining high availability and system reliability.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 350 postings across 49 companies.

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Skills

Python Kotlin AWS MySQL Spark Kubernetes Distributed Systems Monitoring Alerting Testing Code Review

What you'll do

Set the technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale.
Deliver business-impacting projects by managing technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
Own team operations by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, and alerting policies.
Set and advocate for code review and design standards across the engineering organization.
Develop team talent by providing consistent feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
Design and launch high-availability distributed backend systems using Python, Kotlin, AWS, and Kubernetes.
Define technical and execution plans for delivering major features or deprecating existing functionality.

What we're looking for

You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
You have experience delivering major features or system components through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills to support effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
You have experience gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

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