Staff Software Engineer, Affirm Bank

What you'll do

• Own architecture and end-to-end delivery of core bank systems, resolve high-stakes problems, and lead incident response.
• Set engineering standards and operational practices, including reliability, documentation, disaster recovery, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead vendor selection and integration, define the bank–Affirm Inc boundary, and partner with risk, compliance, legal, and audit stakeholders.

What they ask for

• 8+ years of software engineering experience and a hands-on track record owning ambiguous, high-stakes systems through launch and operations.
• Experience setting technical direction and multi-quarter strategy across systems and teams.
• Systems experience with public cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud data platforms; regulated-environment experience involving examiner-facing documentation and decisions.
• Experience selecting, integrating, and operating third-party platforms; Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in a bank, neobank, Banking-as-a-Service provider, card issuer/processor, or fintech with a chartered bank subsidiary; or with a de novo bank launch or greenfield regulated platform.
• Hands-on bank core, card processing, digital bank experience, or greenfield cloud organization experience; familiarity with relevant financial regulations.

Pay

$230,000 - $290,000 USD base salary; $204,000 - $264,000 USD base salary

Tools

AWS, Terraform, Snowflake, Claude, Cursor, Codex

AI focus

Use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows for code, design review, runbooks, and operations; push AI leverage as a way to improve outcomes and team capacity.