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Salary: CAD 181,000 - 241,000 / annual
Affirm's Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience. This Staff Software Engineer role focuses on identity decisioning systems that directly impact conversion, revenue, fraud exposure, and regulatory compliance. The team owns Identity for all markets outside North America and plays a key role in Affirm's international expansion, managing KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning across multiple regulatory environments.
In this role, you will set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and help tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. You'll collaborate across product development with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed. You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
You'll take ownership of your team's operations and availability by ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support "keep the lights on" and on-call efforts. You will foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards for your team and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks. You'll help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
This is a remote-first role open to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan. Affirm is a remote-first company with flexibility built in; most roles can be done from almost anywhere within Canada. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.
**Requirements:**
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes
- Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through definition of technical and execution plans; ability to write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to move from low-level language idioms to large system architecture
- Growth and impact trajectory demonstrating mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills supporting effective collaboration with global engineering teams
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
