Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Consumer App Experience)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

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 consumer app experiences at Affirm. 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 directly leading a core group of senior engineers across the company to unlock large-scale product features, building trust and accountability, and developing the overall technology strategy to uphold technical excellence across all consumer mobile and web surfaces within our engineering org. The Affirm App and web are the primary surfaces that Affirm brings delightful experiences to our customers. From the first time new users are introduced to their eligible purchasing power with Affirm, to signing up for the Affirm Card, to helping them repay and manage their loans while surfacing the best personalized offers for them. This team spans across multiple products and areas at Affirm to power these products and experiences.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience working across the stack in frontend (mobile, web) and backend.
• Bonus points for experience with languages like React Native, Javascript, or Kotlin.
• Strong experience in software development and engineering practices.

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.

Application Instructions

• Not specified. (Contact Affirm directly for application details.)

Company Information

• 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.