Job description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p>Affirm is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a critical role in defining and leading web platform and infrastructure across all web engineering.</p> <p>You'll shape best practices, lead architectural choices, and drive the successful delivery of critical initiatives. This role requires a high level of technical ability and leadership, and experience with advancing and improving design systems, application architecture, CI/CD, observability, performance, and AI tooling for complex, mission critical web applications. </p> <p>You’ll help mentor and grow a talented team of senior engineers, and build relationships with architects and product teams across Affirm.</p> <h2><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build and drive web development strategy for all frontend teams</li> <li>Deliver critical improvements to our large monorepo build and deploy systems, focusing on high reliability and performance</li> <li>Architect and contribute to decisions on the right platform, tools, and technologies to support consistency and reliability</li> <li>Empower web engineers to leverage AI to improve delivery speed, code quality, and developer experience across all web engineers at the company. Help define Affirm’s web development AI strategy,
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