Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Identity Decisioning) Remote Canada Affirm’s Identity team is mission-critical to the customer checkout experience. When a customer chooses affirm, one of the first steps is an identity check, and our ability to make the right decision directly impacts conversion, revenue, fraud exposure, and regulatory compliance. Our team owns Identity for all markets outside North America, playing a key role in affirm’s international expansion.

We are responsible for KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning across multiple regulatory environments. This work is about shaping how affirm adapts its core Identity platform to new market dynamics, customer expectations, and compliance requirements. 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, polcities, 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. You have 8+ years of experience designing,



developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.

You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes. 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. This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Equity

Grade - 7 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. (CAD $181,000 - $241,000 Location - Remote Canada This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan. Remote-first with flexibility built in Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company.

Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work.

Health coverage at no cost: Adaptable time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to. We’re committed to providing an inclusive interview process, including accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need support, we’re happy to help.

📌 Staff Software Backend Engineer - Remote (Quebec City)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Quebec City