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Unlike traditional cards, every pay-later transaction is backed by its own unique loan, and our system is the \"invisible piping\" that makes this complex model work at scale. Every swipe triggers our platform to solve a hard problem in milliseconds: matching messy, fragmented payment network data to the correct loan to drive real-time approvals, origination, and refunds.\nAs Affirm experiences explosive growth, our team's contributions are a key enabler. This isn't just another backend role; you'll be building the \"financial brain\" for our flagship card products, with your work on the critical path for every single swipe. We're tackling a unique, high-stakes distributed systems challenge that demands exceptional correctness and massive scale. You will partner closely with product, data science, and engineering teams to design and build the future of our industry-leading money movement platform.\nIf you are passionate about making foundational design decisions and building a beloved, lasting financial brand-come join us. It’s going to be an amazing ride!\nWhat you'll do\nDrive technical strategy by leading the planning, prioritization, and execution of projects, ensuring alignment with product, technical, and business goals.\nLead the end-to-end system design and development of large-scale, high-availability services. This includes building robust APIs and data models for our micro-service and event-driven architectures.\nCollaborate across functions with partners in Product, Analytics, Design, Legal, and Accounting and to define requirements and execute our card loan attribution and lifecycle strategy.\nEnsure system health and performance by analyzing and troubleshooting complex technical issues, optimizing existing code, and driving solutions that focus on long-term robustness and scalability.\nMentor and grow the team by guiding junior engineers, leading technical discussions and design reviews, and championing best practices through code review.\nWhat we look for\n5+ years of experience in software development or engineering, with a deep understanding of system design and architecture.\nMotivated leader, inspiring team growth and fostering a culture of continuous learning\nExcellent communicator, adept at sharing complex ideas with diverse audiences.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a creative and solution-oriented mindset.\nProficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, Kotlin, or similar.\nExperience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).\nKnowledge of database systems (SQL, NoSQL), web frameworks, and RESTful API development.\nThis position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.\nThis remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan\nPay Grade - N\n Equity Grade - 6\n Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. 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