Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Marketplace and Consumer Experiences)

Affirm provides clear and predictable ways for people to pay over time. The company is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define technical strategy and lead technical excellence across full-stack Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. The role involves architecting scalable solutions, guiding engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering reliable customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the vision – Define the technical direction, long-term technical roadmap, and strategic initiatives in Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and App Experiences
• Work closely with stakeholders across all teams at Affirm to champion and implement technical excellence in conjunction with business results across all consumer facing experiences
• Create and influence a strong ownership culture across teams, with high accountability and investment for building for scale and efficiency
• Guide and deliver critical user experiences that deliver customer value quickly and reliably
• 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
• Mentor and lead – Guide a strong group of engineers by championing best practices, and helping them grow

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience working across the stack, driving architectural improvements in the backend. Bonus points using languages like React Native, Javascript, or Kotlin
• Track record of successfully leading critical projects and leveraging multiple engineering teams across organizational boundaries 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
• You embody an ownership mindset and help influence a similar culture to those around you
• Collaborative partnership across engineering teams and cross-functional 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