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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (order Platform)

Location: Remote
Work mode: Remote
Type: full time
Listed: Sep 3, 2026

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[ About this role ]

Staff Software Engineer on the Order Platform team at Affirm. This role involves shaping systems for orders, captures, refunds, and settlement, driving technical strategy for reliability and scalability. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and owning critical decisions for the platform.

Skills and focus areas

backend systems
distributed systems
technical strategy
product development lifecycle
monitoring
triage
playbooks
policies
testing
alerting
code review
design standards

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