Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Auth Experiences)

Affirm, Inc.; Kitchener; Remote; CAD 181,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health coverage for employees and

Equity rewards

Tech setup stipends

Remote-first with flexibility

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm’s Auth Experiences team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction and build next-generation web and mobile experiences for Affirm customers.

You will lead major initiatives, shape architecture, and mentor the team to deliver reliable software across web and backend layers. This remote-first role requires collaboration with product, design, and analytics to balance customer experience with security and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and architecting web apps using React or Vue.
• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience delivering major features or system components with a clear technical plan.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team over a year-long horizon and align it with business impact.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and understood trade-offs.
• Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own team operations and availability with monitoring, on-call readiness, and runbooks.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by establishing design standards and championing them across teams.
• Mentor teammates, provide feedback, and lead by example.

Skills

React

Vue

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

The Auth Experiences team is looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer to help set technical direction and build the next generation of web and mobile experiences for affirm customers.

Auth Experiences owns key moments in affirm’s checkout flow, allowing customers to access affirm's services, while ensuring fraud is kept to a minimum. Our systems power critical consumer journeys across thousands of merchants and multiple countries. We manage web and mobile experiences, building User Interfaces, as well as backend orchestration layers. We focus heavily on ensuring a great customer experience with high conversion and security. As a staff engineer, you will lead significant technical initiatives, drive the architecture and evolution of the product, and mentor the team to build highly reliable software.

What You’ll Do

• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team 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 your team’s 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 for your team, 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 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.

Base Pay Grade - P

Equity Grade - 7

Employees new to affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

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). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by affirm holdings, inc. (parent company).

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.

Remote-first with flexibility built in

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.

Benefits Designed For You

• Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.
• Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
• Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.
• Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy affirm stock at a discount.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive interview process, including accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need support, we’re happy to help.

For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law.