Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
Affirm is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a critical role in defining and leading technical excellence across all Purchasing frontend engineering. You’ll collaborate with engineering leaders, create and implement technical strategy across full-stack teams, and coordinate closely with stakeholders to build stable, performant solutions that are a joy to use. You'll shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership and project management skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a customer-first mindset.
Checkout is Affirm’s core consumer facing functionality. This role leads the frontend teams that build this experience.
What You'll Do
- Build and drive technical strategy all frontend teams in checkout
- Work closely with stakeholders across all teams at Affirm to champion and implement technical excellence in conjunction with business results
- Create and influence a strong ownership culture across teams, with high accountability and investment for building at scale
- Deliver critical user experiences that uphold high reliability and performance
- Guide or influence product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver customer value quickly.
- Design, implement, and extend core platform components and functionality to enable new products and features to be built
- Architect and contribute to decisions on the right platform, tools, and technologies to support consistency and reliability
- Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers
What We Look For
- 10+ years of experience working across the stack in web and backend.
- Strong experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver results across organizational boundaries
- Track record of successfully leading critical projects and leveraging partner teams for company-wide results
- Extensive experience developing and implementing technical strategy that drove prominent change in reliability and responsiveness
- Previous project management or people management experience: You know how to influence, effectively communicate, and coach others
- Take Ownership: You embody an ownership mindset and help influence a similar culture to those around you.
- Collaborative partnership across engineering teams and crossfunctional stakeholders
- You have a customer-first mindset: wanting to create the best-in-class experience for our customers, and understand how that translates into the right technical decisions
- You thrive in the ambiguity, and are comfortable diving into code and systems to understand how they work, potential dependencies, and how to constantly improve
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that can help influence and share critical decisions with stakeholders
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Base Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
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: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
Location: Remote - US
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Affirm Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
350 N. Orleans St., Chicago, IL, United States, 60654
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