Staff Partner Engineer

In this role as a Staff Partner Solutions Engineer,  you will be responsible for providing technical leadership across Commercial and Product Partnership teams, supporting large cross-functional programs. You will represent Affirm’s engineering team and technologies to partners, such as Shopify and Stripe, while helping drive technical + business strategy. This role entails operational support for ad hoc partner requests, collaborating with engineering teams on solution design, and managing the execution of long-term initiatives. The ideal candidate will be passionate about fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation, unafraid to roll up their sleeves with engineers with a proven track record of delivering results. 

What You'll Do

• Develop detailed project plans, including: solution design, timeline estimation, task break-down, and testing plan.

• Provide day to day support for technical questions from external partner stakeholders

• Develop integration support material and documentation for new products, rollouts and features

• Serves as an overarching SME and point of escalation for internal and external teams facing technical challenges

• Make recommendations on integration strategy, platform evolution, infrastructure, and tooling selection to optimize user experience

• Explore the business intersection between our commercial strategy and technical Partnership capabilities

• Contribute to the internal development of pertinent external documentation to strengthen the overall partnership experience

What We Look For

• 7+ years experience in a Solutions Engineering, Partner Engineering, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, Solutions Architecture, or any other customer-facing engineering role

• Ability to read and understand multiple programming languages

• Experience and understanding of JSON, HTML, REST API, and Webhook technologies

• Familiarity with the following concepts: integrating UX elements w/ backend services, frameworks, and 3rd party developer APIs

• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools and applications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong project management skills, capable of influencing internal and external stakeholders to stay on schedule

• Passion and drive to change consumer banking for the better

• Nice to have: experience and understanding of various Partner Platform Types (e.g. Ecommerce, Payment Processors, Payment Gateways, and Wallets)

Pay Grade - USA30
Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year:
Min: $162,400
Mid: $203,000
Max: $243,500
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year:
Min: $146,100
Mid: $182,700
Max: $219,200
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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