Staff Software Engineer, Affirm Bank

What this role involves

Affirm is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its bank engineering team, a senior individual contributor role responsible for setting technical direction across the bank's systems, owning the hardest problems, and leading vendor selection. The role emphasizes AI-native workflows, building for examiners, and defining the integration boundary with Affirm Inc. The team is small and the surface area broad, with direct exposure to senior leadership.

Skills this posting asks for

• cloud infrastructure
• data platform
• core banking configuration
• ci/cd
• networking
• integration
• vendor management
• ai tools
• agentic workflows
• code review
• design review
• documentation
• incident response
• monitoring
• runbooks
• compliance
• risk management
• bsa/aml
• audit

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

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. About the Role Affirm is building its own bank — and this role…