2 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
- Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that multiply the team’s effectiveness.
- Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call practices.
- Establish code review and design standards and promote quality and ownership through writing and technical talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
- Build and maintain shared mobile infrastructure, including design systems, networking, observability, experimentation, CI/CD, app releases, and developer tooling.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience developing and architecting mobile applications, including 4+ years using React Native.
- Proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript, plus hands-on React Native and Expo experience.
- Experience authoring or migrating native modules and components and debugging across the JavaScript-to-native boundary under React Native’s New Architecture.
- Experience with complex React state management; Redux Toolkit proficiency is a bonus.
- Experience performing major React Native SDK updates and staying current with native operating system releases.
- Experience with mobile testing, observability, crash reporting, experimentation, and feature-flagging tools such as Maestro, Appium, Sentry, Crashlytics, Statsig, and LaunchDarkly.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or comparable agentic tooling, with judgment about appropriate guardrails and quality standards.
- Proven track record driving teams to execute large projects and delivering major features, system components, or deprecations through technical and execution plans.
- Strong coding, architecture, communication, collaboration, feedback, and talent-development skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first role open to candidates residing in specified Canadian provinces.
- Affirm covers health care premiums for employees and dependents, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Wallets provide stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy shares at a discount.
- Additional total compensation benefits may include monthly health, wellness, and technology stipends.
Tech Stack
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.