Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering)
Affirm · Remote Canada · Remote US
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- Remote-friendly
- Posted
- 2026-07-20
- Team
- Financial Platforms - Engineering
Role description
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The Ledger Engineering team enables rapid financial product innovation by providing an audit-grade ledger platform that ties ambitious company growth to a highly regulated industry's real-world accounting controls. We are passionate about building robust, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems that enable us to be on-time and precisely accurate in every financial interaction we have both with our consumers and institutional finance partners.…
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