Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (Auth Experiences)

Affirm

3h•$173,000 - $255,000•Remote

About The Position

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. Trust & Safety Experience owns the customer journeys during authentication, verification, and fraud journeys. You will work as a full stack engineer, contributing to backend, web, and mobile interfaces. In this role, you will need to gain a deep understanding of the business, product and engineering context, and utilize that context to own and deliver high-availability and low-latency systems that Affirm customers use every day.

Requirements

4+ years of experience of developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
Proficient in working with Javascript/Typescript.
Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design.
Writing high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
Proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
Experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

Owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
Supporting peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
Proactively identifying project, process, technology or business issues, advocating for them, and leading in solving them.
Supporting the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
Helping develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.