Role Location
- Remote
Employees
Address
Tech Stack
- Python
- Java
- AWS
- React
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- Swift
Role Description
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.
Our Fraud Engineering team’s mission is to protect both consumers and our business by preventing fraud at the point of purchase, uncovering fraud that has occurred, and mitigating its impact.
Are you excited about preventing consumer Identity Theft and Account Takeover? Do you want to help us build our next generation fraud mitigation platform?
Affirm’s Fraud Engineering team is growing and looking for a senior software developer to help keep our customers safe.
What You'll Do
Work with our Product team to extend our core decisioning service; building new risk and fraud mitigation features
Build effective tools for our Risk Operations team to help uncover fraud in real time
Support Data Science by providing them with the signals needed to build effective models
Integrate third party solutions and data into our loan application to determine applicant risk
Analyze and debug performance issues across distributed services
What We Look For
Passionate: Passionate about Affirm's Mission: Deliver Honest Financial Products that improve lives
Technical: Solid CS fundamentals and fluency of a dynamically typed language. We primarily use Python, but members of our team have backgrounds in a wide range of technologies
Collaborative: Enjoys cross team collaboration especially with product managers and designers
Humble: You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
User Focused: Cares about the details in the user experience
Experienced: Background building real-time distributed web services, fraud detection and risk decisioning systems
About Affirm
Affirm empowers people to say yes to more of the things they love.
While traditional credit cards charge compounding interest and late fees, we show you up front exactly what you’ll owe—with no hidden fees and no surprises. And through advanced technology and analytics that look beyond traditional FICO scores, we’re able to serve a much broader population than anyone else in the space.
We’re growing fast and hiring smart, curious people to help us revolutionize the banking industry and make it more accountable, accessible, and human. If you’re ready to make a difference, join us.
Company Culture
Affirmers believe people come first. We’re passionate about building something that makes a positive change in our customers’ lives.
Success means all hands are on deck—from engineering to sales and operations. We collaborate companywide and challenge each other to bring thoughtful ideas to every project. Even with our growth, Affirm still feels like a tightly-knit team where every perspective counts.
Address
Tech Stack
- Python
- Java
- AWS
- React
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- Swift
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