Staff Software Engineer, iOS (Search)

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.
Our team is looking for a Staff iOS Engineer who can help us iterate on a world-class search platform covering various content types. We are a full-stack engineering team responsible for expanding and improving our search capabilities within our consumer-facing mobile app to help users find content that they find compelling enough to purchase. This is one of Affirm's most-used surfaces and areas of greatest opportunities. This role is an exciting opportunity to have a significant impact on a growing team as we build out our search functionality.
What You'll Do

• Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering counterparts to plan, refine, implement and maintain features.
• Work with the Tech Lead to drive feature definition and implementation, taking into account resource consumption both client-side and on the backend.
• Consistently write high-quality, testable code in Swift that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Leverage frameworks and tools like Resolver, XCTest/XCUITest, BitRise, and Git to create, deploy, and monitor robust code.
• Review others' code and provide constructive feedback.
• Proactively raise improvement opportunities and contribute ideas to address them.
• Estimate scope of work and keep stakeholders informed of any changes to timelines.
• Conduct technical screens and onsite coding interviews.
• Regularly reflect on successes and mistakes to help yourself and your team grow.

What We Look For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience shipping production-quality features on iOS
• Expertise in Swift
• Knowledge of the iOS ecosystem
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Software design and implementation skills acquired by learning from mistakes and analyzing successes
• Humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown
• Takes pride in iteratively delivering great user experiences

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade - 31
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All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account.
[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act , the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here .
If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways-not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that's why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report .
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