Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack (Consumer App Experience)

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience working across the stack in frontend (mobile, web) and backend. Bonus points using languages like React Native, Javascript, or Kotlin.
• Strong experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver results across organizational boundaries
• Track record of successfully leading critical projects and leveraging partner teams 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
• Take Ownership: You embody an ownership mindset and help influence a similar culture to those around you.
• Collaborative partnership across engineering teams and crossfunctional 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.

Responsibilities:

• Build and drive technical strategy for app and web experiences across all consumer facing surfaces at Affirm
• Work closely with stakeholders across all teams at Affirm to champion and implement technical excellence in conjunction with business results
• Create and influence a strong ownership culture across teams, with high accountability and investment for building at scale
• Deliver critical user experiences that uphold high reliability and performance
• Guide or influence product decisions/scope and determine the right technical tradeoffs to deliver customer value quickly.
• 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
• Partner closely with Front End Platform to plan and drive path-to-green initiatives across platform, features, and product roadmaps
• Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, business requirements, partners, and new engineers