Principal Software Engineer

at  Affirm

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
In this role, you are a member of Affirm’s Architecture Group, and in that capacity, you report to the VP of Engineering for Architecture. You will own the architecture and technical roadmap, and delivery of innovative products within the Servicing and Partner Configuration domains, as well as contributing to the overall architecture of Affirm’s technology within the Architecture Group.
In this role, you are also the accountable technical leader for Affirm’s Servicing and Partner Configuration domains.
The Servicing domain is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of Affirm’s customer service agent experience, as well as Affirm’s self-service repayment and other self-service consumer journeys. Together these are the most common day-to-day destination for our users, and an extremely important component of Affirm’s overall user experience.
Along with Servicing, the Partner Configuration domain is accountable for the full lifecycle and user journey of our network of hundreds of thousands of merchant partners, from self-service functionality aimed at small businesses to large enterprises and partner ecommerce platforms.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Drive the long-term vision and architecture of Affirm’s post-purchase user experience, as well as the full lifecycle of our partner onboarding and configuration experience
• Champion innovative, scalable, and delightful solutions across the engineering organization
• Promote a strong culture of innovation, drive evaluation, development and roll out of new technologies/frameworks. Actively research, brainstorm, prototype, and present ideas.
• Establish architecture, technical design, and code review standards, coach team members to conduct effective design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standards, create best practices, and lead by example.
• Provide technical guidance and influence in other areas of Engineering
• Lead technical teams to develop end-to-end solutions for complex problems, interfacing with multiple services and platforms, and multiple external organizations.
• Partner with Product Management, provide technical input to shape product direction and roadmap.
• Lead the organization by hiring, coaching, managing, and supporting a team of senior engineering leaders in technical contributor roles.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor to build a team that can confidently tackle complex challenges across multiple technical domains.
• Provide leadership in development of a technical architecture and strategy for a complex and quickly growing business and serve a broader engineering team.

EMPLOYEES NEW TO AFFIRM OR PROMOTED INTO A NEW ROLE, TYPICALLY BEGIN IN THE MIN TO MID RANGE.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year:
Min: $197,300 CAD
Mid: $246,600 CAD
Max: $295,900 CAD