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$260k
versus about
$218k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
64 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$195,000–$255,000
across 60 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform), you will join a senior team within Financial Platforms to shape the systems powering post-checkout actions like orders, captures, refunds, and settlements. You will drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and own high-leverage decisions to ensure platform reliability and availability. Your daily work involves consolidating internal platforms, drawing clean domain boundaries, and migrating existing merchants while managing technical sustainability and operational processes. You will utilize Python or Kotlin to develop highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes. The role requires designing services with clear API boundaries and handling consistency, idempotency, and failure modes within a financially-sensitive domain involving payments, commerce, and ledgers. You will also establish code review standards and lead cross-functional collaboration.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.
Set the long-term technical strategy for the team and align it with critical business projects.
Design and migrate internal platforms to consolidate post-checkout APIs and define clean domain boundaries.
Own team operations by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, and alerting policies.
Define and enforce code review and design standards to foster a culture of quality.
Mentor and develop engineering talent through direct feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Manage technical risks and trade-offs by collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams.
Develop and execute technical plans for delivering major features or deprecating existing system 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 are analytical and discerning in designing services with clear API boundaries, reliability characteristics, and handling of consistency and idempotency.
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 in payments, commerce, ledger, or other financially-sensitive domains (preferred).
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.