Senior Staff Software Engineer, Front End (Purchasing Experience)

Affirm; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 232,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead frontend engineering for their core consumer-facing functionality. In this pivotal role, you will define and implement technical strategies, ensuring high reliability and performance in user experiences. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll guide architectural decisions and foster a culture of ownership and accountability. This remote-first company values a customer-first mindset and offers competitive benefits, making it an exciting opportunity for a tech leader looking to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in web and backend development.
• Strong leadership and project management skills required.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for frontend teams in checkout.
• Deliver user experiences with high reliability and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Cross-Functional Communication

Technical Strategy

Problem Solving

Customer-Focused Mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Web Technologies

Backend Technologies

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Front End (Purchasing Experience)

Remote US

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.

Affirm is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a critical role in defining and leading technical excellence across all Purchasing frontend engineering. You’ll collaborate with engineering leaders, create and implement technical strategy across full-stack teams, and coordinate closely with stakeholders to build stable, performant solutions that are a joy to use. You'll shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership and project management skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a customer-first mindset.

Checkout is Affirm’s core consumer facing functionality. This role leads the frontend teams that build this experience.

What You'll Do

• Build and drive technical strategy for all frontend teams in checkout
• Work closely with stakeholders across all teams at Affirm to champion and implement technical excellence in conjunction with business results
• Create and influence a strong ownership culture across teams, with high accountability and investment for building at scale
• Deliver critical user experiences that uphold high reliability and performance
• Guide or influence product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver customer value quickly
• Design, implement, and extend core platform components and functionality to enable new products and features to be built
• Architect and contribute to decisions on the right platform, tools, and technologies to support consistency and reliability
• Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers

What We Look For

• 10+ years of experience working across the stack in web and backend
• Strong experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver results across organizational boundaries
• Track record of successfully leading critical projects and leveraging partner teams for company-wide results
• Extensive experience developing and implementing technical strategy that drove prominent change in reliability and responsiveness
• Previous project management or people management experience: You know how to influence, effectively communicate, and coach others
• Take Ownership: You embody an ownership mindset and help influence a similar culture to those around you
• Collaborative partnership across engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders
• You have a customer-first mindset: wanting to create the best-in-class experience for our customers, and understand how that translates into the right technical decisions
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable diving into code and systems to understand how they work, potential dependencies, and how to constantly improve
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that can help influence and share critical decisions with stakeholders
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Base Pay Grade - R

Equity Grade - 15

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.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $260,000 - $310,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000

Location: Remote - US

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.

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.

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