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Affirm hires Senior Software Engineers to build the infrastructure behind its buy-now-pay-later platform, working across payments, credit, and risk systems. The company has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for engineering talent, making it a realistic target if you need sponsorship.
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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. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Lakehouse Analytics team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
* This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
COMPENSATION
Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
BENEFITS
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
INTRODUCTION
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. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Lakehouse Analytics team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
* This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
COMPENSATION
Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
BENEFITS
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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Tailor your resume to fintech infrastructure
Affirm's engineering teams focus on payments, credit decisioning, and risk systems. Highlight distributed systems, API design, or data pipeline work over generic full-stack experience. Framing your background around financial platform problems gets past initial screens faster.
Verify your OPT end date before applying
If you're on F-1 OPT, calculate your STEM extension eligibility before targeting roles with longer hiring cycles. Affirm's interview process can run six to eight weeks, and you need enough runway to clear the offer stage without a gap in work authorization.
Ask about cap-exempt H-1B filing early
If you're currently on H-1B with another employer, confirm in the offer stage whether Affirm will file an H-1B transfer or wait for the next lottery. Transfers don't require a new cap slot, and you can start on the receipt notice.
Use Migrate Mate to surface open roles by sponsorship type
Affirm posts Senior Software Engineering roles across multiple teams. Use Migrate Mate to filter open positions by the visa types Affirm sponsors, so you're applying to roles where your visa category is already supported rather than guessing from a generic careers page.
Prepare for system design around compliance constraints
Senior engineering interviews at fintech companies like Affirm often include system design scenarios involving data privacy, auditability, or regulatory reporting. Practice designing systems that account for those constraints, not just scale and latency.
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Find Senior Software Engineering at Affirm JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does Affirm sponsor H-1B visas for Senior Software Engineers?
Yes. Affirm sponsors H-1B visas for Senior Software Engineering roles. The company files both new cap-subject H-1B petitions through the annual USCIS lottery and H-1B transfers for candidates already on H-1B status with another employer. If you're mid-cycle and missed the lottery, a transfer is a viable path that doesn't require waiting for the next April registration window.
How do I apply for Senior Software Engineering jobs at Affirm?
Applications go through Affirm's careers page, where roles are listed by team and location. Senior Software Engineering positions at Affirm typically move through a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview, and a multi-round virtual onsite covering coding, system design, and a cross-functional or behavioral round. Having your work authorization status clearly stated upfront avoids delays later in the process.
Which visa types does Affirm commonly sponsor for Senior Software Engineering roles?
Affirm sponsors H-1B, TN, F-1 OPT, and F-1 CPT for engineering roles, and supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways. TN is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying engineering occupations. F-1 CPT is relevant for students in co-op programs. H-1B remains the most common path for full-time Senior Software Engineers who need long-term work authorization.
What qualifications does Affirm expect for Senior Software Engineering roles?
Affirm typically expects a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field, along with several years of professional software development experience. Strong candidates demonstrate depth in at least one backend language, experience with distributed systems, and familiarity with the technical challenges of operating financial or payments infrastructure at scale. System design fluency is consistently weighted heavily in interviews.
How do I find Senior Software Engineering jobs at Affirm that match my visa type?
Affirm lists roles across multiple engineering teams, but the careers page doesn't filter by visa sponsorship type. Migrate Mate aggregates Senior Software Engineering openings at Affirm and lets you filter by the visa categories the company sponsors, so you can identify which open roles align with your specific work authorization situation before investing time in the application process.
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