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You’ll set the year‑long technical strategy for the Ledger Engineering team and own its operational health, including monitoring, on‑call rotations, playbooks and alerting. You’ll collaborate with product, design and analytics to ensure sustainable, risk‑aware solutions, and drive code‑review and design standards. You’ll also mentor engineers, provide feedback and grow talent on the team.
8+ years designing and launching backend systems at scale (Python or Kotlin) and 2+ years leading a software team. Proven experience building highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes, preferably in financial or ledger‑related domains. Strong verbal and written communication skills and a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
The Ledger team powers Affirm’s audit‑grade ledger platform, a core component that enables accurate, regulated financial interactions with consumers and institutional partners. Reliable, precise accounting is essential for a publicly‑traded company and for supporting finance and capital‑markets functions. Your work directly impacts the company’s ability to innovate quickly while maintaining compliance and trust.
A candidate who enjoys shaping technical direction, leading high‑performance engineering teams, and building fault‑tolerant, scalable fintech systems. Someone with deep backend expertise, strong people‑management skills, and a passion for delivering reliable, data‑accurate financial services.
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.
Ledger Engineering works with our finance partners to support everything from closing our monthly books to annual audits. We bridge the technical gap between data, strategy, and the thorough level of accounting detail required to operate a publicly-traded company. Outside of accounting, we partner with the Capital Markets team to help open our business to investors who require a similar forensic level of reporting.
What you'll do
What we look for
Base Pay Grade - P
Equity Grade - 13
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 equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $230,000 - $290,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $204,000 - $264,000
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Remote-first with flexibility built in
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. 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. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.
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