Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (Upfunnel Messaging)

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.

If you are interested in applying for this job, please make sure you meet the following requirements as listed below.

The Upfunnel Messaging team at Affirm builds and maintains the platform for serving promotional messaging on partner merchant sites and affirm.

js, our javascript library for merchant site integration. Our consumer artifacts are heavily used and represent the highest trafficked systems at Affirm;

O(10k) merchants use it daily, with O(100M) requests every day.

The Goal Of The Team Is Two-fold

• Improve the consumer experience by surfacing timely, relevant and personalized messaging during their shopping journey
• Reduce complexity of merchant integration and improve merchants’ underwriting and monitoring capabilities through high quality tooling and useful, delightful features.

We aim to turn Upfunnel Messaging into a turnkey service, and to empower merchants to optimize and customize all aspects of their messaging strategy, enabling them to grow their business through a data centric approach.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join us and help accomplish that mission. Given the scale at which our team operates, your work will be challenging, and will directly impact Affirm’s bottom line.

What You'll Do

• Build, optimize, and scale Upfunnel messaging tooling and flows. This includes data visualization, analysis, reporting, and REST APIs for accessing and editing messaging information
• Interact with stakeholders from Affirm’s Product, Design, Marketing and Commercial orgs to develop elegant, high quality solutions to create a best-in-class merchant and consumer experience
• Enable experimentation and continuous improvement on the highest trafficked library at Affirm
• Prototype new ideas and iterate towards the best customer experience

What We Look For

• 5+ years previous engineering experience
• Prior experience building and maintaining complex front-end systems with cross-browser support
• Knowledge of modern front-end tech stack (we use Javascript, Typescript, React / Redux, ES6, Webpack, CSS3)
• Prior experience with Javascript testing frameworks (jest, webdriver.io, playwright)
• Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems (sentry.io, rollbar, chronosphere, kibana)
• Experience with building Python, Kotlin APIs is a plus
• Experience with developer facing javascript SDKs is a plus
• Experience working cross-functionally with stakeholders from Product, Design and other Engineering teams
• Strong attention to detail with a demonstrated focus on engineering resilience
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication
• Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow, and to navigate the unknown

Base Pay Grade

Equity Grade

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).

In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year : $150,000 - $200,000 CAD

Location : Remote - Canada

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.

Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.

A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include :

• 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

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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