Senior Partner Engineer

Affirm; Remote; CAD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer to provide technical leadership across Commercial and Product Partnership teams. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience in a solutions engineering role, demonstrating strong skills in project management and communication. This remote-first position offers a competitive salary package, lucrative benefits, and a chance to foster long-term partnerships. Join a team dedicated to revolutionizing consumer banking.

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage

Generous stipends for technology and lifestyle needs

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in a customer-facing engineering role.
• Ability to understand multiple programming languages.
• Experience with long-term project planning and execution.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for technical questions from partner stakeholders.
• Lead project plans, driving solution designs and timelines.
• Collaborate with internal teams to drive projects to completion.

Skills

Solutions Engineering

Technical Account Management

E-commerce technologies

Project management

Verbal and written communication

Tools

JSON

REST API

Webhook technologies

Job description

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.

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer

In this role you will provide technical leadership across Commercial and Product Partnership teams, supporting large cross‑functional programs. You will represent affirm’s engineering team and technologies to partners, while helping drive technical and business strategy. This role entails operational support for ad hoc partner requests, collaborating on solution design, and managing the execution of long‑term initiatives. The ideal candidate will be passionate about fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation, unafraid to roll up their sleeves with engineers with a proven track record of delivering results.

What You’ll Do

• Provide day‑to‑day support for technical questions from external partner stakeholders
• Lead the development of project plans by driving solution designs, timeline forecasting, task breakdown, and testing strategy
• Develop integration support material and documentation for new product rollouts and feature updates
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to build out partnership roadmaps
• Serve as an overarching SME and point of escalation for internal and external teams facing technical challenges
• Maintain clear, professional, and proactive communication with external partners to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables, while fostering strong, long‑term relationships
• Work cross‑functionally with internal teams to ensure seamless coordination, share insights, and drive projects to successful completion while maintaining open and constructive communication
• Provide feedback on integration strategy, potential product enhancements, and operational workflows

What We Look For

• 4+ years experience in a Solutions Engineering, Partner Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, Solutions Architecture, or other customer‑facing engineering role
• Ability to read and understand multiple programming languages
• Experience with long‑term project planning and execution
• Experience with e‑commerce technologies and data models
• Thorough understanding of JSON, HTML, REST API, and Webhook technologies
• Thorough understanding of integrating UX elements with backend services, frameworks, and third‑party developer APIs
• Experience with observability tools and applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong project management skills, capable of influencing internal and external stakeholders to stay on schedule
• Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better

Pay Grade

Pay Grade - L
Equity Grade - 4

Compensation

Base pay range per year: $125,000 - $175,000
Remote‑first, work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by affirm holdings, inc. (parent company). Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).

Benefits

• 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 – employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount

EEO & Legal

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. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. By clicking “Submit Application,” you acknowledge that you have read affirm’s global candidate privacy notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.