Analyst II, Full Stack (Fraud Analytics)
Affirm · Salt Lake City, UT
$128,000–$205,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Salt Lake City, UT
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (operations research analysts). range 9,000–22,400
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $90,896 (middle half $69,863–$128,761). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The compensation range spans two tiers: $145,000–$205,000/year for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT; $128,000–$188,000/year for all other US states. The lower bound of the broader national range ($128,000) is used for the bottom of the pay band and the higher bound ($205,000) for the top of the pay band.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree … desired,' which is a preference, not a hard gate — no minimum degree is required.
SOC classification is a close call between 15-2031 (Operations Research Analysts, reflecting the fraud strategy/decisioning/analytics focus) and 15-2051 (Data Scientists, reflecting the ML model evaluation and Python/data pipeline work). The primary day-to-day work — developing fraud decisioning strategies, cutoff frameworks, and performance analytics — aligns more closely with 15-2031.
The 2–4 years experience requirement is stated as a range for the role overall; 2 years is used as the overall years minimum per instructions to take the minimum.
Fraud strategy is listed as a required domain skill ('customer risk management at a payments or financial company') rather than a named tool, but it is the core gating requirement of the role and is retained as a skill to surface that domain gate.
Machine learning models, A/B experimentation, dashboards, and data pipelines appear in the responsibilities/context sections rather than under a hard-requirements heading, so they are marked preferred.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): fraud strategy.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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