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 core consumer experiences at Affirm, starting with Marketplace and Search. You’ll collaborate with engineering leaders, create and implement technical strategy across full-stack teams, and coordinate closely with stakeholders to build scalable, reliable, and high-performing solutions. You'll help 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. You will be responsible for building and developing the technical strategy to unlock large-scale product features, building trust and accountability, and upholding technical excellence for our Marketplace domain within our engineering org.
The Marketplace domain is the main pillar of our core consumer strategy, driving the user journey across iOS, Android, and Web platforms. The teams span across multiple products and areas to engage and provide value to our customers, starting with the initial landing page and Search, which expands into the various product offers and journeys a user can embark on with Affirm.
What You'll Do- Lead the vision – Define the technical direction, long-term technical roadmap, and strategic initiatives in Marketplace and Search
- Work closely with stakeholders across all teams at Affirm to champion and implement technical excellence in conjunction with business results across all consumer facing experiences
- Create and influence a strong ownership culture across teams, with high accountability and investment for building for scale and efficiency
- Guide and deliver critical user experiences that deliver customer value quickly and reliably
- 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
- Mentor and lead – Guide a strong group of engineers by championing best practices, and helping them grow
- 10+ years of experience working across the stack driving consumer experiences, with proven leadership in successfully leading critical projects and leveraging multiple engineering teams across organizational boundaries for company-wide results
- Bonus points for using languages like Kotlin or Python, or prior frontend (mobile, web) experience.
- Extensive experience developing and implementing technical strategy that drove prominent change in reliability and responsiveness, and longer term architectural improvements
- You embody an ownership mindset and help influence a similar culture of ownership and accountability to those around you.
- Customer-first mindset: wanting to create the best-in-class experience for our customers, and understand how that translates into the right technical decisions
- Inspire and Improve: You thrive in the ambiguity, and are comfortable leading efforts to dive into systems to understand how they work, potential dependencies, and how to constantly improve
- 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
#LI-Remote
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.
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