Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Decisions Orechestration)

About the Role

Decisions Orchestration owns key moments in Affirm’s checkout flow, from the screens shoppers see to the behind-the-scenes downstream orchestration and state management that power them.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend, to set the technical direction for this space. You’ll lead the design of the next generation of Affirm’s checkout experience and raise the bar for frontend engineering across our core checkout flows. Your goal will be to make checkout fast, clear, and reliable.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, tying it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards, advocating for them through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

• 8+ years of experience developing and architecting web applications using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Proficient in working with JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
• Ability to write high-quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Comfort moving from low-level language idioms to large system architecture while navigating ambiguity.
• Demonstrated mastery in gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills supporting collaboration across a global engineering team.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.