3 days ago
Base Salary
$204k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the team’s technical strategy on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
- Lead architecture and execution for major features, system components, and functionality deprecations.
- Build and evolve web and mobile authentication experiences and backend orchestration layers.
- Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, and engineering teams to manage technical risks and trade-offs.
- Own operational readiness, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
- Establish code review and design standards and promote engineering quality through writing and technical talks.
- Mentor team members, provide feedback and guidance, and help develop engineering talent.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
- Proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecations through technical and execution planning.
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable, reusable code and work from low-level language details through large-system architecture.
- Demonstrated growth through gathering and applying feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility to work from almost anywhere within the country of employment; occasional office work may be required and new hires attend in-person onboarding.
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, including coverage for employees’ dependents, plus dental and vision benefits.
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan offering 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.