Jobs at Affirm

Set technical strategy, lead architecture and execution for scalable account-management systems, and deliver secure fullstack customer experiences. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics; establish engineering standards, monitoring, testing, alerting, and operational processes; support on-call ownership; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers while addressing account security and recovery challenges.

Build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences using React and TypeScript. Develop experimentation, instrumentation, marketing integrations, attribution, and measurement systems while meeting privacy requirements. Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering, write tested and extensible code, monitor system metrics, support availability and on-call efforts, participate in code reviews, and contribute to team development.

Designs and presents scalable payment and checkout solutions for enterprise merchants. Leads technical discovery, solution architecture, custom integrations, demos, and pre-sales support while partnering with Sales, Engineering, Product, and partner teams. Advises customers, identifies technical risks, influences product development, creates reusable enablement materials, and supports successful implementations. Requires strong expertise in payments, fintech, APIs, SaaS, enterprise architecture, and e-commerce or point-of-sale checkout systems.

Own and improve leadership development programs for aspiring, first-time, and newly hired people leaders. Design scalable learning journeys, workshops, peer communities, coaching, assessments, and practical leadership resources. Partner with People teams to connect development with hiring, onboarding, promotions, and growth. Use data, feedback, and emerging technologies to measure impact and continuously improve programs while managing vendors, communications, resources, and budgets.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a full-stack card experiences team. Design and launch scalable backend systems and web or mobile applications, collaborate with product, design, analytics, risk, and operations, and own features from problem definition through production monitoring. Improve reliability, on-call operations, code quality, and technical standards while mentoring engineers and applying AI thoughtfully.

Design and develop backend features for Affirm’s underwriting platform, supporting merchants and consumers across Affirm Card, e-commerce, and app interfaces. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and credit risk teams; implement reliable distributed systems; monitor metrics and availability; participate in on-call support, code reviews, debugging, interviewing, and engineering growth activities.

Build and launch full-stack customer-facing features and backend services for Affirm Card. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; design scalable APIs, support distributed systems, monitor service reliability, participate in on-call operations, review code, and contribute to technical planning and team development.

Build and operate scalable AI platform infrastructure, including LLM and MCP gateways, agent runtimes, evaluation services, routing, quotas, observability, and security controls. Own projects from design through launch and on-call, establish technical standards, collaborate with security and infrastructure teams, and mentor engineers. Develop highly available distributed backend systems supporting AI workloads across Affirm’s financial products and engineering organization.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, workload safety standards, infrastructure as code, GitOps delivery, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-healing automation. The role leads technical direction, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, and participates in on-call incident response.

Leads Affirm’s global security incident response and investigations program. Responsibilities include serving as incident commander, directing technical investigations, managing and developing response engineers, establishing readiness practices, improving detection and response tooling, implementing AI-assisted investigation workflows, and translating incident metrics into executive and board-level reporting.

Compensation Analyst II will manage annual and mid-year compensation cycles, conduct market and workforce analyses, support incentive compensation programs, maintain job architecture in Workday, and advise stakeholders on compensation structures. The role requires cross-functional project management, data storytelling, relationship management, and detailed execution across Technology and Business functions.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Affirm’s high-volume observability platform. Design telemetry pipelines, log-sampling systems, and observability standards while balancing reliability, performance, and cost. Drive cross-functional initiatives, mentor six engineers, establish engineering and operational standards, support availability and on-call practices, and promote quality through code reviews, documentation, and technical talks.

Leads and coordinates co-marketing campaigns with merchant partners across onsite, offsite, affiliate, and emerging channels. Manages partner relationships, campaign planning, media coordination, creative briefs, budgets, compliance documentation, and performance optimization. Uses campaign analytics to improve investment, revenue, GMV, acquisition, engagement, and loan takeup. Collaborates with sales, product, growth, brand, creative, legal, compliance, agencies, and merchant teams across North America.

Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and managing engineers who build platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Own safeguards such as isolation, approval workflows, rollback mechanisms, observability, and auditability. Partner with infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams to identify systemic weaknesses, improve reliability, establish incident response practices, and promote resilience validation across the software development lifecycle.

Build and operate enterprise identity and access management systems at Affirm. Responsibilities include IAM lifecycle operations, access troubleshooting, automation, backend services, APIs, integrations, monitoring, and production support. The role focuses on SailPoint, Auth0, workforce identity events, secure infrastructure, and collaboration with Security, IT, and Engineering. Candidates should have software engineering experience, backend development skills, cloud familiarity, and knowledge of IAM technologies.

Build and maintain customer identity and authentication services for registration, login, authorization, MFA, step-up authentication, and account lifecycle flows. Develop backend APIs in Python or Kotlin, integrate Okta, Auth0, and ForgeRock, write automated tests, participate in code reviews, deploy features, debug production services, improve reliability, and collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams under mentorship.

Leads cross-functional operations enablement programs that scale compliant, high-quality servicing. Owns roadmaps, operational readiness, stakeholder governance, risk resolution, change management, training strategy, knowledge management, process improvement, and performance measurement. Partners with Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and vendors to translate strategy and technical concepts into scalable workflows, resources, and customer and agent experience improvements.

Set frontend technical direction for Affirm’s checkout and decisions orchestration systems. Lead architecture and delivery of major web application features, establish engineering standards, manage reliability and on-call operations, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on building fast, clear, and reliable checkout experiences using modern declarative UI frameworks.

Leads Affirm’s third-party security risk management program, including international market due diligence, M&A security assessments, post-acquisition vendor integration, control evaluations, threat modeling, and remediation tracking. Designs automated workflows and integrations across GRC, ticketing, cloud, and identity systems using Python and agentic coding tools. Establishes processes, metrics, dashboards, and reporting while advising Legal, Procurement, Engineering, Finance, Compliance, Privacy, and leadership on security risks and decisions.

Leads Affirm’s zero-to-one product initiatives in partnership with the CEO and executive team. Owns product vision, strategy, roadmaps, customer discovery, prototyping, experimentation, launches, and iteration for new products and platforms. Coordinates engineering, design, data, risk, legal, operations, and revenue teams without direct authority. Defines success metrics, analyzes customer behavior, communicates tradeoffs, and establishes repeatable product development standards.