Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Web Platform)

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. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
The Web Platform team at Affirm is responsible for the tools that Affirm's web engineering teams use to build, test, monitor and deploy our applications and libraries: The design system, CI/CD pipelines, visual and performance regression prevention systems, semantic release, analytics, and more.
Our work enables teams to ship Affirm's User Web portal, web views in our mobile apps, our checkout, shopping and loan servicing experiences, and other user interfaces which are seen across the world by tens of millions of users. We work closely with teams across affirm to build and experimentally optimize new features and new businesses.
We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer/Tech Lead to join us and help accomplish that mission. Given the speed our code base is growing, your work will be challenging and will impact web projects across the company.
What You'll Do

• Work with designers to help them understand how to best align and improve the design system.
• Work with engineers to set the direction and vision of the design system.
• Create software and documentation that will make the lives of designers and engineers more joyful by making it as easy as possible to get from idea to design to shipping code.
• Participate as a full member of the core web platform team, including contributing to our triage work, participating in standups, and leading project.
• Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other frontend developers.
• Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan technical initiatives that cut across multiple front-end teams.
• Build a detailed understanding of our business goals to help inform technical direction.
• Look for, and implement, improvements to the end-to-end experience for developers working on our systems.

What We Look For

• While experience building a design system is not required, deep experience working with one or more such systems is, as is a demonstrated understanding of maintaining high software quality, especially in an environment where regressions have a high, multi-team blast radius.
• Knowledge of modern front-end tech stack (we use React, TypeScript, Jest, Cypress, WebPack, styled-component)
• Technical leadership; capable of providing mentorship, cross-functional project execution, setting and executing on technical vision and strategy.
• Experience working cross-functionally with stakeholders from product and design.
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication.
• Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow, and to navigate the unknown

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade - 31
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