Frontend Software Engineer (Marketing and Privacy)

Affirm; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first compensation structure

Health benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Software Engineer II to build polished web experiences for marketing and measurement systems. You will work in a modern web stack (React, TypeScript) and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable features that consider measurement and privacy.

This role emphasizes ownership, growth, and collaboration within a remote-first environment, with opportunities to expand expertise across analytics and marketing APIs.

Qualifications

• 1.5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Strong communication skills for global collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences.
• Contribute to experimentation, instrumentation, and marketing integrations.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React or Vue

Web app development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

• Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) builds trusted, privacy-aware consumer web experiences and measurement systems that enable sustainable growth. Within MPE, the MarTech pillar owns Affirms Logged-Out Web experiences, web experimentation, client-side tagging, marketing technology integrations, attribution, and measurement
• As a Software Engineer II on MPE, you will build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences while contributing to the experimentation, instrumentation, and marketing integrations that help Affirms understand and grow consumer acquisition
• You will work in a modern web stack across React, TypeScript, shared component systems, testing, performance, and observability, with opportunities to develop deeper expertise in technologies such as Google Tag Manager, analytics and experimentation platforms, conversion tracking, and marketing APIs
• You will partner with senior engineers as well as Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Engineering to ship reliable experiences and ensure measurement and privacy requirements are considered during development
• With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process

Benefits

• Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
• Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
• Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
• Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
• Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
• Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
• Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
• Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
• Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
• Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth

This role is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys building polished web products, learning new technical domains, and taking increasing ownership of systems that operate at scaleYour experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholdersYou have mastered taking a simple problem or business scenario into a solution that interacts with multiple software components, and executing on it by writing clear, easily understood, well tested and extensible codeThis position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related fieldYou are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others’ code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviewsYou have experience working with Javascript/TypescriptYou have a total of 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineerYou have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering teamYou have experience shipping web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue