Senior Staff Software Engineer, Affirm
Front End, Purchasing Experience
$232-310k
+ Employee stock purchase plan. Salary dependent on location
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$232-310k
+ Employee stock purchase plan. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a high level of technical ability, leadership skills, strong cross-functional communication, and a creative mindset
- 10+ years of experience working across the stack in web and backend
- Strong experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver results across organizational boundaries
- Track record of successfully leading critical projects and leveraging partner teams for company-wide results
- Extensive experience developing and implementing technical strategy that drove prominent change in reliability and responsiveness
- Previous project management or people management experience: You know how to influence, effectively communicate, and coach others
- Take Ownership: You embody an ownership mindset and help influence a similar culture to those around you
- Collaborative partnership across engineering teams and crossfunctional stakeholders
- You have a customer-first mindset: wanting to create the best-in-class experience for our customers, and understand how that translates into the right technical decisions
- You thrive in the ambiguity, and are comfortable diving into code and systems to understand how they work, potential dependencies, and how to constantly improve
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills that can help influence and share critical decisions with stakeholders
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- Affirm is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a critical role in defining and leading technical excellence across all Purchasing frontend engineering
- You’ll collaborate with engineering leaders, create and implement technical strategy across full-stack teams, and coordinate closely with stakeholders to build stable, performant solutions that are a joy to use
- You'll shape best practices, guide architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives
- Checkout is Affirm’s core consumer facing functionality. This role leads the frontend teams that build this experience
- Build and drive technical strategy all frontend teams in checkout
- Work closely with stakeholders across all teams at Affirm to champion and implement technical excellence in conjunction with business results
- Create and influence a strong ownership culture across teams, with high accountability and investment for building at scale
- Deliver critical user experiences that uphold high reliability and performance
- Guide or influence product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver customer value quickly
- Design, implement, and extend core platform components and functionality to enable new products and features to be built
- Architect and contribute to decisions on the right platform, tools, and technologies to support consistency and reliability
- Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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