Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead technical excellence in Purchasing frontend engineering. You will collaborate with engineering leaders, implement technical strategies, and coordinate with stakeholders to build high-performing solutions. This role demands strong technical skills, leadership, project management expertise, and excellent communication. You will shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and ensure successful delivery of critical initiatives. The position leads frontend teams building Affirm's core consumer-facing checkout functionality. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including equity, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build and drive technical strategy for 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

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• 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
• Remote work