Principal Software Engineer

May 10

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 • 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