Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (App Experience)

Affirm; Toronto; Remote; CAD 181,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an experienced frontend architect to set the strategy for our web surfaces across iOS, Android, and Web, collaborating with product, design, and analytics to deliver scalable features.

You will drive codemods, AI-assisted tooling, and design systems, mentoring teammates, and ensuring reliable, high-quality releases in a remote Canada context.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using React or Vue.
• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience leading across multiple teams and driving horizontal initiatives.
• Delivered major features or system components with a clear technical plan.
• Comfort working in ambiguity and understanding large system architectures.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for frontend surface on a year-long timescale.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to ensure sustainability and manage risks.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own operations and availability with monitoring, playbooks, testing, and on-call readiness.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by establishing code review and design standards.
• Develop talent through feedback and mentoring.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Cross-team collaboration

Leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Codemods tooling

AI agent skills

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.

The Marketplace and App Experience domain is the main pillar of our core consumer strategy, driving the user journey across all of our frontend surfaces: iOS, Android, and Web. The teams span across multiple products and areas to engage and provide value to our customers, starting with the Home hub in the app or website, which expands into the various product offers and journeys a user can embark on with affirm. This role will be at the forefront of our front end technical strategy, working closely with other experts across our mobile and web technologies, while also evolving and collaborating with every product experience team at affirm.

You’ll bring React with TypeScript expertise to work alongside our product engineering teams. You’ll be responsible for a range of tasks including coordinating and implementing broader product features from Figma or product requirements in high stakes critical projects, migrating and modernizing our web code implementation, design systems, and architecture, and doing this efficiently through building and/or reusing codemods, AI agent skills, and tools.

What You’ll Do

• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for our frontend surface on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• You take ownership of operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

• You have 8+ years of experience of developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• You are proficient in working with Javascript/Typescript.
• You have experience working across multiple teams, and driving horizontal initiatives with demonstrated leadership
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Base Pay Grade

P

Equity Grade

- 7

CAN base pay range per year:

CAD $181,000 - $241,000

Location - Remote Canada

This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.

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. Affirms 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.

Benefits

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.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] 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.