Staff Software Engineer (Full-Stack (Account Management))

Role Overview

Join Affirm as a Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead (Full-Stack, Account Management). You’ll be the team’s consistent technical owner—setting technical direction, making architecture and rollout tradeoffs, and ensuring operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and own architecture/rollout tradeoff decisions.
• Lead designs for agentic workflows and Self Service Account Management features.
• Reduce coupling across event-driven integrations.
• Codify patterns and guardrails for safe, auditable, scalable self-service account updates.
• Drive engineering quality by unblocking senior engineers, raising standards through rigorous design and code review.
• Coordinate and enable cross-team delivery across the product development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency building web apps using declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with a global engineering team.
• Deep technical judgment; comfortable moving between low-level implementation details and large-system architecture.
• Proficient in designing/developing/scaling backend systems with Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Experience delivering major features/system components and planning technical execution (including deprecations).
• Write high-quality, maintainable code that others can easily understand and use.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguity and iterate based on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.