Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

What you'll do

• Set the long-term technical strategy for the checkout flow and its associated business-impacting projects.
• Lead the design and development of the next generation of Affirm’s checkout experience.
• Manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs by collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams.
• Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes to act as a force-multiplier for the team.
• Own team operations by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting systems.
• Establish and enforce code review and design standards for the team and the broader engineering organization.
• Provide feedback and guidance to develop the technical talent within the team.

What we're looking for

• 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 and Typescript.
• You have experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating functionality through technical and execution plans.
• You can move from low-level language idioms to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills to support collaboration with a global engineering team.
• This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.