Staff Frontend Software Engineer (Decisions Orchestration)

Join Affirm as a Staff Frontend Software Engineer in the Decisions Orchestration team. You will lead the design of the next generation of Affirm's checkout experience, set technical strategy for your team, and collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle. You will also take ownership of your team's operations and availability, foster a culture of quality and ownership, and help develop talent on your team. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, generous time off, health benefits, and opportunities for learning and development.

Set the technical direction for the frontend development team, leading the design of the next generation of Affirm’s checkout experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team.
• You have experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others

Requirements

• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• You have 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue

You are proficient in working with JavaScript/TypeScript

• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low-level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work