Staff Frontend Engineer — Checkout Architect (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Las Vegas (NV); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% dependent medical coverage

Monthly tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affi is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend, to set the technical direction for the checkout experience. You’ll lead the design of the next generation of Affi’s checkout and raise the bar for frontend engineering across core flows.

You’ll collaborate with product management, design and analytics to ensure sustainable tech decisions, ownership of operations, and a culture of quality. This remote-first role emphasizes leadership and cross-functional influence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Proficient in Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality with a defined technical plan.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and moving from low-level language idioms to large system architecture.
• Growth trajectory showing feedback gathering and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong verbal and written communication for global engineering collaboration.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and align with business priorities.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to ensure sustainable tech decisions and risk management.
• Advocate for technical solutions and robust operating processes across the team.
• Own the team's operations, monitoring, triage, playbooks, and on-call readiness.
• Establish code quality and design standards and promote them throughout the organization.
• Develop team members by providing guidance and mentoring.

Skills

React

Vue

Javascript

Typescript

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Affi is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend, to set the technical direction for the checkout experience. You’ll lead the design of the next generation of Affi’s checkout and raise the bar for frontend engineering across core flows.

You’ll collaborate with product management, design and analytics to ensure sustainable tech decisions, ownership of operations, and a culture of quality. This remote-first role emphasizes leadership and cross-functional influence.