Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning)

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $204,000–$204,000🗓 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-02

Core

Setting technical strategy for the Identity team to support global KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning across multiple regulatory environments.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Identity Decisioning)

Builds

Identity platform components for international markets

Domain

Fintech / Identity & Compliance

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Backend system design at scale, distributed systems architecture, Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, technical strategy, team leadership, code review standards

Preferred skills

Experience with regulatory compliance, ambiguity navigation, cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

Define and advocate technical solutions and operational processes, ensure team operations and availability (monitoring, triage, alerting), foster culture of quality and ownership, develop team talent

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

Sourced via greenhouse · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 923,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.

About Affirm

Financial Services3128San Francisco, California, USFounded 2012

At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products. We have roles across a variety of teams, including engineering, product, finance, operations, revenue, marketing, people and more. A note to applicants: Fake job and recruiting scams are on the rise. Affirm will never ask you to pay any upfront fees or send you any checks to purchase equipment during any part of the recruiting process. Affirm only uses legitimate company emai