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Original Job Post

Affirm · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Director, Executive

CAD$203K/yr - CAD$283K/yr

15+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Drive the long-term vision and architecture of Affirm’s post-purchase user experience, as well as the full lifecycle of 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 the development of a technical architecture and strategy for a complex and quickly growing business and serve a broader engineering team.

Qualification

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Software EngineeringProduct DevelopmentTechnical Decision MakingTeam ManagementProduct OwnershipLeadershipCommunicationMentoringFintechRetail industriesB2CB2BSalesforce SalesCloudServiceCloud

Required

Strong experience leading engineering organizations, across multiple product lines, to deliver high quality software.

Track record of successfully leading engineering teams at both rapidly scaling startups and complex larger technology companies.

Expertise in synthesizing complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities into clear decisions, and influence product direction.

Ability to communicate decisions and practices to the engineering organization effectively.

Extensive experience building and owning large-scale, highly available consumer product.

Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders

15+ years software engineering experience.

Preferred

Experience with Fintech and Retail industries for both B2C and B2B (merchants/affiliates) is a plus.

Experience with Salesforce SalesCloud or ServiceCloud platform is a plus.

Benefits

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents

Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses

Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge

ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

Company

Affirm

Glassdoor

3.8

Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.

Founded in 2012

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

https://www.affirm.com

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