Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead, Architecture & Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech spending stipends

Flexible time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for web and mobile experiences in the Auth Experiences team. You will help build reliable, secure customer journeys across merchants and countries, and mentor engineers to deliver high-quality software.

You will own architectural decisions, drive initiatives, and partner with product management, design, and analytics to balance velocity with sustainable quality. This remote Canada role emphasizes leadership and impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications.
• Proficient in Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience delivering major features and system components.
• Comfort with ambiguity and large-scale architectures.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate across product, design, analytics to ensure sustainability and trade-offs.
• Act as a force-multiplier for technical solutions and processes.
• Own team operations, monitoring, playbooks, and on-call readiness.
• Set code and design standards and mentor others.
• Develop talent through feedback and leadership by example.

Skills

8+ years experience

React

Vue

Javascript/Typescript

System architecture

Technical leadership

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for web and mobile experiences in the Auth Experiences team. You will help build reliable, secure customer journeys across merchants and countries, and mentor engineers to deliver high-quality software.

You will own architectural decisions, drive initiatives, and partner with product management, design, and analytics to balance velocity with sustainable quality. This remote Canada role emphasizes leadership and impact.