Job brief: Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Account Management)

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Affirm's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-05 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Affirm's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $181,000 to $241,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote Canada · Remote US
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• You have a total of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law.

Conditions

• 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 s…
• Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.

Main duties

• 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-im…
• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical susta…
• 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 …
• 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 you…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $187k a year (1,148 listings, 68 employers). This listing is 13% higher.
• Across Affirm's 164 open listings, 33% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Affirm hires

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