Senior Staff Software Engineer, Front End (Purchasing Experience)

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.

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.