[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Frontend @Affirm

Role 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.
• Building and/or reusing codemods, AI agent skills, and tools efficiently.

What You'll Do:

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
• Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• Create and monitor metrics for your team’s artifacts, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Proficient in working with Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience working across multiple teams, driving horizontal initiatives with demonstrated leadership.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system.
• Ability to write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
• Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, with developed tools and practices for safe implementation.
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth, proactively seeking feedback from team, manager, and stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering team.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.