Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Summary

Join Affirm as a Senior Staff Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the technical excellence of our consumer app experiences. You will collaborate with engineering leaders, implement technical strategies across full-stack teams, and build high-performing solutions. This leadership role demands strong technical skills, project management expertise, and exceptional communication. You will directly lead a team of senior engineers, driving large-scale product features and developing the overall technology strategy. The role focuses on building and improving the Affirm app and web experiences, ensuring high reliability and performance while prioritizing customer needs. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including comprehensive health benefits, flexible spending stipends, and generous time off.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience working across the stack in frontend (mobile, 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
• 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 app and web experiences across all consumer facing surfaces at Affirm
• 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
• Partner closely with Front End Platform to plan and drive path-to-green initiatives across platform, features, and product roadmaps
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus points using languages like React Native, Javascript, or Kotlin

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
• Equity rewards
• 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
• Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company!