# Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Fraud Decisioning) at Affirm

- Company: Affirm
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Remote Canada
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-09
- Skills: Checkout
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/affirm/jobs/7995361003

## Description

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
 Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly. 
 We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead projects and initiatives on the Fraud Decisioning team. You’ll be responsible for building tools and systems that empower Affirm fraud fighting capabilities, work with cross-functional teams to adopt and monitor those and use analytics and data driven decisions to further improve the performance and quality of fraud deciders. Our mission is to drive growth while protecting Affirm, buyers, and merchants. We achieve this by leveraging data to evaluate risk at critical points in the user journey, adapting to the ever-changing fraud landscape, and by introducing new fraud-fighting capabilities.. 
 What You’ll Do 
 • Work across the org to plan and execute large, cross-functional initiatives, including: project definition, technical specification, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance. 
• Generate simple and elegant designs that are easily deployed and debugged, but anticipate the unhappy path. Write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others. 
• Review others’ work and provide constructive feedback in order to maintain high and consistent quality standards across teams. 
• Lead a

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