Jobs at Affirm

Build and launch scalable back-end APIs and web applications for AI-powered customer contact channels. Break projects into phases, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, monitor service metrics, support availability and on-call operations, debug code, conduct reviews, and contribute to team development. The role requires ownership, clear communication, and experience with React or Vue plus Python or Kotlin.

Own quarterly engineering goals, lead backend engineers through ambiguous problems, and deliver highly available distributed systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, risk, data science, and operations while balancing technical trade-offs. Improve code quality, design standards, monitoring, availability, and on-call practices. Identify and resolve technical and business issues, support team development, and provide mentorship and feedback.

Own quarterly engineering goals, lead backend engineers through ambiguous problems, and deliver scalable, highly available systems. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics on technical decisions, monitor service reliability, support on-call operations, improve code and design standards, and mentor team members. Build and launch backend systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes while maintaining quality across a large codebase.

Build, launch, and maintain reliable backend systems using Python or Kotlin. Break projects into deliverable phases, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, monitor service health, support on-call operations, debug code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to team development. The role requires designing distributed systems, working across large codebases, writing tested and extensible code, and communicating effectively with global engineering stakeholders.

Own marketplace monetization and economics by analyzing supply, demand, pricing, profitability, and user experience. Build dashboards, conduct experiments, evaluate affiliate and merchant incentive performance, and optimize marketplace inventory and offers. Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Client Success, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to improve merchant value, engagement, conversion, and sustainable growth. Manage analytical workflows and data pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, Sigma, and ETL tools.

Build and operate Affirm’s insider threat program, including investigative standards, detection use cases, controls, metrics, and reporting. Support insider risk investigations through telemetry and evidence analysis, threat modeling, and written recommendations. Partner with Legal, HR, Privacy, and Compliance on case handling and regulatory obligations. Improve DLP, endpoint monitoring, access governance, and SaaS security controls. Automate evidence collection, case routing, triage, and investigation workflows using Python, automation platforms, and agentic AI.

Build Affirm’s narrative intelligence function by analyzing audience, behavioral, brand, media, social, survey, and business data. Develop measurement frameworks, dashboards, research studies, and feedback loops to assess narrative performance. Translate complex evidence into actionable recommendations for positioning, messaging, campaigns, content, and communications strategy while partnering across Analytics, User Research, Marketing, and creative teams.

Set technical strategy, lead architecture and execution for scalable account-management systems, and deliver secure fullstack customer experiences. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics; establish engineering standards, monitoring, testing, alerting, and operational processes; support on-call ownership; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers while addressing account security and recovery challenges.

Build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences using React and TypeScript. Develop experimentation, instrumentation, marketing integrations, attribution, and measurement systems while meeting privacy requirements. Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering, write tested and extensible code, monitor system metrics, support availability and on-call efforts, participate in code reviews, and contribute to team development.

Designs and presents scalable payment and checkout solutions for enterprise merchants. Leads technical discovery, solution architecture, custom integrations, demos, and pre-sales support while partnering with Sales, Engineering, Product, and partner teams. Advises customers, identifies technical risks, influences product development, creates reusable enablement materials, and supports successful implementations. Requires strong expertise in payments, fintech, APIs, SaaS, enterprise architecture, and e-commerce or point-of-sale checkout systems.

Own and improve leadership development programs for aspiring, first-time, and newly hired people leaders. Design scalable learning journeys, workshops, peer communities, coaching, assessments, and practical leadership resources. Partner with People teams to connect development with hiring, onboarding, promotions, and growth. Use data, feedback, and emerging technologies to measure impact and continuously improve programs while managing vendors, communications, resources, and budgets.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a full-stack card experiences team. Design and launch scalable backend systems and web or mobile applications, collaborate with product, design, analytics, risk, and operations, and own features from problem definition through production monitoring. Improve reliability, on-call operations, code quality, and technical standards while mentoring engineers and applying AI thoughtfully.

Build and launch full-stack customer-facing features and backend services for Affirm Card. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; design scalable APIs, support distributed systems, monitor service reliability, participate in on-call operations, review code, and contribute to technical planning and team development.

Build and operate scalable AI platform infrastructure, including LLM and MCP gateways, agent runtimes, evaluation services, routing, quotas, observability, and security controls. Own projects from design through launch and on-call, establish technical standards, collaborate with security and infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers. Develop highly available distributed backend systems supporting AI workloads across Affirm’s financial products and engineering organization.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, workload safety standards, infrastructure as code, GitOps delivery, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-healing automation. The role leads technical direction, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, and participates in on-call incident response.

Leads Affirm’s global security incident response and investigations program. Responsibilities include serving as incident commander, directing technical investigations, managing and developing response engineers, establishing readiness practices, improving detection and response tooling, implementing AI-assisted investigation workflows, and translating incident metrics into executive and board-level reporting.

Compensation Analyst II will manage annual and mid-year compensation cycles, conduct market and workforce analyses, support incentive compensation programs, maintain job architecture in Workday, and advise stakeholders on compensation structures. The role requires cross-functional project management, data storytelling, relationship management, and detailed execution across Technology and Business functions.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Affirm’s high-volume observability platform. Design telemetry pipelines, log-sampling systems, and observability standards while balancing reliability, performance, and cost. Drive cross-functional initiatives, mentor six engineers, establish engineering and operational standards, support availability and on-call practices, and promote quality through code reviews, documentation, and technical talks.

Leads and coordinates co-marketing campaigns with merchant partners across onsite, offsite, affiliate, and emerging channels. Manages partner relationships, campaign planning, media coordination, creative briefs, budgets, compliance documentation, and performance optimization. Uses campaign analytics to improve investment, revenue, GMV, acquisition, engagement, and loan takeup. Collaborates with sales, product, growth, brand, creative, legal, compliance, agencies, and merchant teams across North America.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and managing engineers who build platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Own safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback mechanisms, observability, and auditability. Partner with infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams to identify systemic weaknesses, improve reliability, establish incident response practices, and promote resilience validation across the software development lifecycle.