Staff Software Engineer at Affirm

✨ The Stack take on this Affirm job

• 🏢 Affirm has 38 jobs here, 25 with visa sponsorship see all
• 🛂 Visa: Highly Qualified Professional permit. Education: Higher education degree guide
• 💡 No salary shown. Ask Affirm if it is above the minimum.

Updated 2026-11-05, from our data and official sources.

Apply with your AI assistant

With The Stack connected to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, paste this. Your assistant tailors your CV and cover letter, checks the visa facts and gives you the apply link.

Help me apply to this job on The Stack: https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/staff-software-engineer-affirm

Not connected yet? Connect in a minute. To help your user apply, call the MCP tool prepare_application with slug "staff-software-engineer-affirm": it returns the apply link, the visa facts and a CV and cover letter checklist. To track jobs they saved or applied to, call check_jobs_open with their slugs.

About the role

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. 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 Marketplace Experience team sits within Affirm’s Direct-to-Consumer organization and owns the core discovery and evaluation surfaces that help shoppers find the right merchant and financing option for their needs. Our scope includes search, deals, and merchant detail experiences, which are high-traffic, highly visible entry points that directly influence shopper trust, engagement, and downstream conversion. We work at the intersection of consumer experience, merchant strategy, and platform capabilities, partnering closely with Product, Design, Analytics, and dependent platform teams. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across Marketplace Experience. This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who can define and drive long-term technical strategy while remaining deeply hands-on. You will shape the evolution of our systems as we scale the Marketplace to support new discovery paradigms, personalization, and experimentation, while maintaining high standards for performance, reliability, and quality. In this role, you will operate as a force multiplier by setting architectural direction, leading cross-team initiatives, and raising the bar for engineering excellence across the team. You’ll be expected to navigate ambiguity, balance product velocity with technical sustainability, and mentor engineers through example and feedback. If you’re motivated by owning critical customer-facing systems and influencing how teams build and operate software, this role offers broad scope and impact. WHAT YOU'LL DO * You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. * You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed. * You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes. * You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. * You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. * You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. * On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement   WHAT WE LOOK FOR * You have a total of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer. * You are proficient in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes * You are proficient in developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React, React Native or Vue. * You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. * You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work. * Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers. * You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - 6 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 monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company). ESP base pay range per year: €101 000 - €131 000 Additional benefits include: * Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle * Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge * Learning & Development programs * Parental leave * Employee Resource & Community Groups We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role. Location - Remote Spain #LI-Remote 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. 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. [For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] 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 [https://www.affirm.com/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.

Responsibilities

You will set the technical strategy for your team and collaborate across teams to ensure technical sustainability. Additionally, you will take ownership of your team’s operations and foster a culture of quality and ownership.

Requirements

You need 8+ years of experience in software engineering and proficiency in backend systems and web app development. Strong communication skills and the ability to thrive in ambiguity are also essential.

Key skills

• Python — in 1200 other listings on The Stack
• Kotlin — in 251 other listings on The Stack
• AWS — in 802 other listings on The Stack
• MySQL — in 93 other listings on The Stack
• Kubernetes — in 585 other listings on The Stack
• React — in 277 other listings on The Stack
• React Native — in 34 other listings on The Stack
• Vue — in 16 other listings on The Stack
• Backend Systems
• Web Apps
• Technical Strategy
• Collaboration
• Code Review
• Mentorship
• Communication
• Engineering Excellence

On The Stack (as of 2026-11-05)

• Affirm has 37 other listings on The Stack, 25 of them marked as offering visa sponsorship.
• 76 visa-sponsored jobs in Spain on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.
• 195 visa-sponsored software engineer jobs in Europe on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.

Frequently asked questions about Affirm

Is this Staff Software Engineer role still open?

It was posted on 2026-03-04. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Affirm's site before applying.

Where is this role located?

The listing gives the location as Remote Spain. It is marked remote.

What skills does this role ask for?

The listing names: Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, React, React Native, Vue, Backend Systems, Web Apps, Technical Strategy, Collaboration, Code Review, Mentorship, Communication, Engineering Excellence.