15 hours ago
Base Salary
$236k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision, long-term roadmap, and strategic initiatives for Cards.
- Architect and contribute to platform, tooling, and technology decisions that improve consistency, reliability, scale, and efficiency.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives and coordinate with engineering leaders and stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Champion engineering best practices, ownership, accountability, and technical excellence.
- Lead by example in using AI to build quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
- Mentor and develop engineers, including helping them progress to Staff level.
- Drive improvements in reliability and responsiveness through technical strategy and architectural change.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience working across the stack and driving backend architectural improvements.
- Experience driving change across large engineering organizations and leading critical projects involving multiple engineering teams.
- Extensive experience developing and implementing technical strategy that produces significant improvements in reliability and responsiveness.
- Experience mentoring and growing engineers through Staff level.
- Strong collaboration, verbal communication, written communication, stakeholder influence, and ownership skills.
- Experience with React Native, JavaScript, or Kotlin is a bonus.
- A related bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility within the country of employment, occasional in-person office work, and in-person onboarding for new hires.
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision benefits.
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan with discounted Affirm stock.
- Inclusive interview process with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.
Tech Stack
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About Affirm
Affirm provides buy now, pay later installment financing at online and in-store checkout, along with a consumer app and virtual card, for shoppers and merchants. It monetizes through merchant fees and interest on select loans, with no late fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Affirm is a public company listed on NASDAQ that powers payments for thousands of ecommerce retailers.