Jobs at Affirm

Engineering interns develop, ship, test, and monitor production code through a meaningful project tailored to team needs. They collaborate with mentors and managers, contribute to real engineering systems, and present their work at the end of the internship. Projects may involve data pipelines, automated testing, financial platforms, frontend applications, APIs, deployment, and cloud technologies.

Entry-level software engineers will contribute to team projects, write tested and extensible code, navigate large codebases, debug and review code, collaborate with stakeholders, manage quality and delivery trade-offs, and actively pursue professional growth. The role is part of Affirm’s early-career program and involves hybrid work in New York City or San Francisco during the first year.

Develop and ship a meaningful engineering project, monitor its production deployment, collaborate with a mentor and manager, test and document work, and present results to the engineering organization. The role may involve machine learning, backend or frontend development, APIs, data processing, deployment, and testing using technologies such as Python, Java, JavaScript, AWS, AngularJS, or React.

Software Engineering Interns develop, deploy, test, monitor, and present meaningful production projects during a 12–16 week internship. Interns collaborate with mentors and managers to define projects aligned with team needs, ship code, and verify production performance. Work may involve backend or frontend development, data processing, automated testing, APIs, cloud platforms, and financial technology.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead Affirm’s App Infrastructure team, defining the mobile architecture and roadmap while improving developer productivity, reliability, performance, and engineering quality. Manage and grow senior engineers, align cross-functional stakeholders, and contribute hands-on to mobile platform and tooling development. The role requires extensive mobile and web engineering experience, React Native expertise, engineering management experience, and a record of delivering and scaling consumer mobile applications.

Own and deliver backend lakehouse infrastructure goals, lead engineers through complex problems, and build highly available distributed data systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; define scalable technical solutions; improve code quality and engineering standards; monitor operational health; support on-call responsibilities; and mentor team members.

Own the full sales cycle for complex upper-SMB and mid-market merchants, from territory planning and outbound pipeline generation through executive discovery, solution design, negotiation, contract, and launch. Build quantified business cases, coordinate cross-functional teams, manage forecasts in Salesforce, navigate legal, risk, technical, and implementation requirements, and acquire new merchant partnerships. The role requires consultative selling, commercial judgment, executive communication, and experience closing complex technology, fintech, payments, or SaaS deals.

Build and launch scalable fullstack web applications and APIs for Affirm’s Ads Platform. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering partners to break projects into deliverable phases, make technical trade-offs, write tested and extensible code, monitor service metrics, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviews.

Build and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer products. Break down projects, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, develop scalable APIs, write well-tested code, monitor service health, participate in on-call support, review code, and contribute to engineering growth and interviewing.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Leads the global Customer Operations strategy and portfolio for geographic, product, merchant, and channel expansion. Builds scalable operating models, frameworks, and playbooks; manages cross-functional programs, dependencies, risks, budgets, and post-launch performance. Leads program and process management teams, partners with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Risk, Training, and Service Delivery, and drives governance, change management, continuous improvement, and stakeholder alignment across international markets.

Develop backend tools and systems that improve batch development, testing, workflow efficiency, and reliability. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, design, and analytics teams; break projects into deliverable phases; build scalable, well-tested code; monitor metrics; support system availability and on-call operations; debug code; conduct reviews; and contribute to engineering growth and hiring activities.

Lead the operating foundation for Affirm’s de novo bank. Own Finxact and Savana platforms, deposit and lending operations, launch readiness, controls, reconciliations, vendor oversight, regulatory readiness, and operational resilience. Build and manage the Bank Operations team, establish performance metrics, support audits and examinations, and partner with product, engineering, finance, compliance, risk, fraud, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable banking services.

Lead the Consumer Payments product roadmap at Affirm, creating easier and more successful repayment experiences. Use customer research, data, and experimentation to improve conversion, payment success, safety, and cost efficiency. Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Analytics, Finance, Design, Partnerships, and senior leaders to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, define strategy, and guide products from discovery through launch and iteration.

Build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences using React and TypeScript. Contribute to experimentation, client-side tagging, marketing integrations, attribution, measurement, performance, testing, observability, and privacy-aware development. Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, Data Engineering, and senior engineers. Break down projects, write reliable and extensible code, support operations and on-call efforts, participate in code reviews, and contribute to team growth.

Design and implement backend APIs, microservices, and checkout platform components for Affirm’s financial products. Own system health, improve performance and reliability, collaborate across engineering teams, and contribute to technical standards, tooling, and processes. The role requires developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale while making customer-centric technical decisions.

Own the vision, roadmap, economics, and measurement of Affirm’s consumer loyalty program. Launch rewards, tiers, redemption, and engagement experiences while improving retention and repeat usage. Partner with Risk, Credit, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Marketing, engineering, and design to deliver compliant financial products. Build financial models, run incrementality experiments, measure LTV, and lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity.

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Own the strategy and roadmap for Affirm’s consumer credit experiences across shopping, repayment, and marketing. Lead cross-functional teams across Engineering, Design, Analytics, Credit, Marketing, Commercial, and Legal to create intuitive, personalized financing journeys. Drive discovery, experimentation, funnel analysis, and measurable improvements in activation, conversion, repeat engagement, comprehension, and responsible access to credit.