3 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the team’s technical strategy on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
- Lead significant technical initiatives and drive product architecture and evolution.
- Build web and mobile experiences, user interfaces, and backend orchestration layers for customer authentication and checkout.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
- Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes.
- Own team operations and availability, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call support.
- Establish code review and design standards and promote a culture of quality and ownership.
- Mentor and develop engineers through feedback, guidance, writing, and technical talks.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks such as React or Vue.
- Proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, through technical and execution plans.
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable, reusable code.
- Ability to work from low-level language idioms through the architecture of large systems.
- Demonstrated growth through gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
Benefits
- Remote-first role open to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.
- Most work can be done remotely within Canada; occasional in-person office work may be required, and new hires attend an in-person onboarding experience.
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision coverage.
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan allowing employees to buy Affirm stock at a discount.
- Inclusive interview process with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.
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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.